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rockin' heaven down · Heart

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove AC -- Chorus
0 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play rockin' heaven down on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-11, toms through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-32, toms through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-40, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    58
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-x---------|
rockin' heaven down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- AC, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-31 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-36 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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