Heaven Beside You · Alice in Chains

152 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 6:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 9 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
HEAVEN BESIDE YOU · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 96, 104, 112 and 144.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 9 sections: 123 keep time, 5 are fills, 9 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-84.

CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDLJS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heaven Beside You?

100 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 Heaven Beside You hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Heaven Beside You?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 96, 104, 112 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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