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Heaven · SLAG

Heaven · SLAG
EXERCISE 10 OF 49
Groove J -- Part J
27 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART J
PART K
CHORUS
PART S
PART V
PART J
PART K
CHORUS 2
BREAK
11 groovesS15PKS1B+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heaven on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-40, ride through bars 41-50, snare through bars 51-58 and toms through bars 59-74, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51               52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- P -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-37 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-57 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part V -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

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