Heaven On My Mind · TobyMac

90 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 25-33 and 35, and 4 more places -- 50.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
HEAVEN ON MY MIND · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 10 sections: 58 keep time, 1 is a fill and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-90.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
VERSE 2
7 groovesBDS1S8A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heaven On My Mind?

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 On My Mind hard to play on drums?

40 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?

90 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Heaven On My Mind?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 44.

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