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Something Happened On The Way To Heaven · Phil Collins

EXERCISE 24 OF 30
Run H2 · Chorus 2 (bars 62-86)
136 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Something Happened On The Way To Heaven on drums

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

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-37, ride through bars 38-45, hi-hat through bars 46-61, ride through bars 62-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-108, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Something Happened On The Way To Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- H -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-87 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-112 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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