Heavy · Collective Soul

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:01 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 38-52 and 58-59, and 2 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 102 BPM
HEAVY · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 77.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 77
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 9 sections: 63 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-52.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFEGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy?

102 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Heavy?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 77.

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