Ticket to Heaven · 3 Doors Down

87 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 25-36 and 51-58, and 1 more place -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 115 BPM
TICKET TO HEAVEN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 2 and 66.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 8 sections: 75 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-82.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ticket to Heaven?

115 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 Ticket to Heaven hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ticket to Heaven?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 2 and 66.

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