Heavy Things · Phish

120 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 16-21 and 43, and 9 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 117 BPM
HEAVY THINGS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 51, 58, 71, 89, 91, 92 and 3 more.

LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72
LOOP · 117 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 17 sections: 91 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-83.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesABPCS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy Things?

117 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 Things hard to play on drums?

57 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Heavy Things?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 51, 58, 71, 89, 91, 92 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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