Heaven Beside You (MTV Unplugged) · Alice in Chains

140 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-48, 53-57 and 59, and 1 more place -- 64.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
HEAVEN BESIDE YOU (MTV UNPLUGGED) · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 8 sections: 128 keep time and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-140.

PART D
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFEDS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heaven Beside You (MTV Unplugged)?

112 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 (MTV Unplugged) hard to play on drums?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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