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Heathens · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 16 OF 20
Run B3 · Chorus 3 (bars 51-54)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART S6
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
6 groovesBHS1FS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heathens on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-47, silence through bars 48-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-17, 19 and 21, and 5 more places -- 54.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x-x-----x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Heathens -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-47 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
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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?

40 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 12 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, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED