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Punish My Heaven · Dark Tranquillity

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove AA -- Part AA
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART U
PART W
PART AA
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFAAPACW+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Punish My Heaven on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
92/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19, ride through bars 20-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25 and ride through bars 26-36, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 102-116 and 134-149 -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    102
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----x-----o-----x-----o-----x-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Punish My Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-14 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-44 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Punish My Heaven?

133 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Punish My Heaven hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Punish My Heaven?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED