Something Happened On The Way To Heaven · Phil Collins

136 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-44, 62-76 and 78-85, and 4 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 114 BPM
SOMETHING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO HEAVEN · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 11, 15, 27, 37, 45 and 9 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 8 sections: 102 keep time, 15 are fills and 16 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-26.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Something Happened On The Way To Heaven?

114 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 Something Happened On The Way To Heaven hard to play on drums?

59 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Something Happened On The Way To Heaven?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 11, 15, 27, 37, 45 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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