In The Heavens Above You Will Become A Monster · An Abstract Illusion

658 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 12:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
658
LENGTH
12:33
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 161-162, 164 and 167, and 30 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
IN THE HEAVENS ABOVE YOU WILL BECOME A MONSTER · BAR 161
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

42 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 18, 26, 46, 50, 54, 57 and 105 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

38 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

658 bars across 31 sections: 395 keep time, 111 are fills, 92 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 108-138.

PART BY
PART DD
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
24 groovesAHDDBYCDQ+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Heavens Above You Will Become A Monster?

180 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is In The Heavens Above You Will Become A Monster hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

658 bars, about 12:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 141 exercises over 44 sittings, about 26 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 In The Heavens Above You Will Become A Monster?

42 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 18, 26, 46, 50, 54, 57 and 105 more.

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