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Heaven In Her Arms · Converge

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EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove J -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesJYALOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heaven In Her Arms on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, toms through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-50 and toms through bars 51-54, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 7 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37                               38
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---------------|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-----------------|
T1 |--------------------------------|------------------xxx-X---------|
T2 |--------------------------------|------------------------X-xx----|
FT |--------------------------------|----------------------------xxxx|
BD |x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---------------|
Heaven In Her Arms -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-32 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Y -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heaven In Her Arms?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 In Her Arms hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 In Her Arms?

17 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED