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Heaven Nor Hell · Volbeat

EXERCISE 18 OF 57
Groove J
140 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEROMB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heaven Nor Hell on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-44, ride through bars 45-46, hi-hat through bars 47-81 and toms through bars 82-89, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-17 and 28-33, and 10 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x-----x--|
Heaven Nor Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 11, 35, 45, 46, 70 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-35 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heaven Nor Hell?

135 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 Nor Hell hard to play on drums?

62 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Nor Hell?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 10, 11, 35, 45, 46, 70 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED