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Heaven's a Lie · Lacuna Coil

EXERCISE 8 OF 27
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
96 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
BREAK 3
OUTRO
8 groovesCDFIS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heaven's a Lie on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-42, ride through bars 43-51, hi-hat through bars 52-73, snare through bars 74-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-91, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 15-16 and 19-20, and 13 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------x---x---|
Heaven's a Lie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 46, 75, 95 and 120.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-75 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-132 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Heaven's a Lie?

140 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's a Lie hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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's a Lie?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 46, 75, 95 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED