Wrong Side Of Heaven · Five Finger Death Punch

86 bars, 4:35, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 9 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
WRONG SIDE OF HEAVEN · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 25, 26, 27 and 20 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 25-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 8 sections: 44 keep time, 26 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-71.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIRDAES1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wrong Side Of Heaven?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Wrong Side Of Heaven hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wrong Side Of Heaven?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 25, 26, 27 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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