Heavy · Florence Road

85 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-34 and 49-53, and 5 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HEAVY · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 30, 46, 47 and 8 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 24-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 46-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 7 sections: 28 keep time, 14 are fills, 28 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCVKS1U+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy?

128 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?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Heavy?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 30, 46, 47 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED
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