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Wrong Side Of Heaven · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove D -- Part D
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wrong Side Of Heaven on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-60, silence through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-86.

The beat

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.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---o---|
SD |--------x-----gg--------x---x---|
BD |x-----x---------x-x---x---------|
Wrong Side Of Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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