Higher Than Heaven · Powerwolf

129 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 153 BPM
HIGHER THAN HEAVEN · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 17 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 10 sections: 55 keep time, 23 are fills and 43 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-98.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCEQNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Higher Than Heaven?

153 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 Higher Than Heaven hard to play on drums?

55 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Higher Than Heaven?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 31, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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