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Ticket to Heaven · 3 Doors Down

EXERCISE 14 OF 20
Join Chorus 3 to Part A (bars 57-59)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, PART A
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ticket to Heaven on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
53/100

ride through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, snare through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36 and snare through bars 37-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x-------|
Ticket to Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-70 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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