rockin' heaven down · Heart

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58, 62-63 and 68, and 12 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
ROCKIN' HEAVEN DOWN · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 30 and 12 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 11-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 11 sections: 72 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-59.

PART C
PART O
PART S
PART J
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesACJCOK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is rockin' heaven down?

80 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 rockin' heaven down hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 rockin' heaven down?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 11, 12, 13, 30 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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