Heaven (Classic Version) · Bryan Adams

62 bars, 3:25, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 26-27, and 8 more places -- 36.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 72 BPM
HEAVEN (CLASSIC VERSION) · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 15, 23, 24, 28, 33 and 6 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 6 sections: 39 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHFLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heaven (Classic Version)?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Heaven (Classic Version) hard to play on drums?

50 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Heaven (Classic Version)?

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 15, 23, 24, 28, 33 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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