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This Used To Be Heaven · AngelMaker

EXERCISE 2 OF 52
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART C
PART I
PART L
PART B
PART Y
PART S10
PART L
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAKBLYS10+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Used To Be Heaven on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-27, toms through bars 28-30, snare through bars 31-32, toms through bars 33-34 and snare through bars 35-50, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 91-97, 99-105 and 107-113, and 4 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    91                                                               92
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
This Used To Be Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 38 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- AK -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-31 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This Used To Be Heaven?

120 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 This Used To Be Heaven hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 This Used To Be Heaven?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 38 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED