Heroin Waltz V2 · Harakiri for the Sky

257 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 7:21 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
257
LENGTH
7:21
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 54-56, and 13 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 105 BPM
HEROIN WALTZ V2 · BAR 174
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

38 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 5, 12, 13, 20, 21, 23 and 78 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

34 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

257 bars across 21 sections: 140 keep time, 84 are fills, 4 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 242-257.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART AH
CHORUS 3
PART AP
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesSAHCAPBJ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heroin Waltz V2?

105 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Heroin Waltz V2 hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

257 bars, about 7:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 31 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Heroin Waltz V2?

38 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 5, 12, 13, 20, 21, 23 and 78 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 257 BARS ANALYSED
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