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Heavy · Bombbis

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART A
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavy on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:32
DIFFICULTY
59/100

The time is kept on the toms the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 17-24 and 29-36, and 2 more places -- 52.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |---------------x|
SD |--x-------x-----|
T2 |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Heavy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-76 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Heavy?

120 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 Heavy hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED