Too Much Heaven · Bee Gees

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 8-11 and 13-15, and 18 more places -- 71.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 85 BPM
TOO MUCH HEAVEN · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 2 sections: 108 keep time, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-110.

OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Too Much Heaven?

85 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 Too Much Heaven hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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