Heaven · SLAG

125 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-53, 55-57 and 93-95, and 1 more place -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 173 BPM
HEAVEN · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 32, 36, 44, 47, 50, 52 and 12 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 15 sections: 51 keep time, 18 are fills, 5 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
PART K
CHORUS 2
BREAK
11 groovesS15PKS1B+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heaven?

173 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Heaven hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 32, 36, 44, 47, 50, 52 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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