Heaving Earth · Morbid Angel

126 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 17-19 and 111-113, and 1 more place -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HEAVING EARTH · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 8, 15, 22, 36, 48 and 12 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 18 sections: 77 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-105.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AF
PART AK
PART E
OUTRO
11 groovesPEAKAFN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heaving Earth?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Heaving Earth hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Heaving Earth?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 8, 15, 22, 36, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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