The Truth About Heaven · Armor For Sleep

152 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 6-8 and 10-11, and 13 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 184 BPM
THE TRUTH ABOUT HEAVEN · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 9, 21, 29, 38, 46 and 11 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 11 sections: 82 keep time, 17 are fills, 36 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-37.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBIRNS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Truth About Heaven?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Truth About Heaven hard to play on drums?

47 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Truth About Heaven?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 9, 21, 29, 38, 46 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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