In my personal opinion (which many will disagree with), I don't think things like h4 tags matter. It could be the best written page in the world, a ton of backlinks to it, and google is going to say "Oh sorry, doesn't have a proper h2 tag, let's rank him lower". That being said, I like to have the title and and h1 with the keyword, as well as in the alt tags of an image somewhere.
I'm currently #7 for a term that has 150,000 searches per month and I just recently put the keyword in the top h1 heading. I just wrote the page for the reader, not for search engines.
But to your case, I'd probably do the first one a H1 and the rest h2. That's usually what I do when I write articles.