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Heaven On My Mind · TobyMac

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove B -- Chorus 2
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
VERSE 2
7 groovesBDS1S8A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heaven On My Mind on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, silence through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60 and silence through bars 61-70, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Heaven On My Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-24 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-60 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED