Heathens · 21 Pilots

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-15, 19-24 and 26-27, and 3 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
HEATHENS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 41, 42 and 54.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 8 sections: 51 keep time, 3 are fills and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-27.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
BREAK
PART B
PART H
OUTRO
7 groovesCDBHS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heathens?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Heathens hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Heathens?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 41, 42 and 54.

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