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Heavy · Florence Road

Heavy · Florence Road
EXERCISE 8 OF 33
3-bar fill at bar 24
42 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavy on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-24, snare through bars 25-35, hi-hat through bars 36-46, toms through bars 47-48 and snare through bars 49-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-------x---|
Heavy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- K, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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