Heaven Is A Place On Earth · Belinda Carlisle

128 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
37/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-16 and 28, and 26 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 8 sections: 108 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 92-128.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART G
PART C
PART G
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNGCMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heaven Is A Place On Earth?

120 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 Is A Place On Earth hard to play on drums?

37 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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