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Heaven Sent · Dokken

EXERCISE 10 OF 28
Groove F
88 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCANS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heaven Sent on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-3 and hi-hat through bars 4-118.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-23, and 10 more places -- 70.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Heaven Sent -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 31, 32, 48 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-79 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Heaven Sent?

100 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 Sent hard to play on drums?

44 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?

118 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Sent?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 31, 32, 48 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED