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Heavy Things · Phish

EXERCISE 15 OF 47
Groove K
91 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavy Things on drums

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.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-50, snare through bars 51-54, hi-hat through bars 55-83, snare through bars 84-88, hi-hat through bars 89-93 and snare through bars 94-97, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Heavy Things -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-23 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-37 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-59 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 55-72 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 82-90 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-100 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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