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Higher Than Heaven · Powerwolf

EXERCISE 41 OF 45
Play the whole song with the record
106 / 129 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Higher Than Heaven on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-62, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-79 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 76-92 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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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