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The Banner of Heaven · Guilt Trip

EXERCISE 21 OF 59
Groove Y -- Part Y (a two-bar phrase)
92 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
CHORUS
PART O
PART S
PART Y
PART T
PART AH
PART O
OUTRO
7 groovesHOSYT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Banner of Heaven on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-47, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 12 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                                                10
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|x-----------------x--x--------x-----x--x--x--x--|
The Banner of Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-39 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part S -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part S -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Y and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Banner of Heaven?

147 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 The Banner of Heaven hard to play on drums?

63 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Banner of Heaven?

13 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED