A Little Piece of Heaven · Avenged Sevenfold

266 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 7:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
7:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-51, 110-116 and 223-229, and 1 more place -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
A LITTLE PIECE OF HEAVEN · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 23, 31, 33, 35, 36, 38 and 44 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

266 bars across 22 sections: 88 keep time, 50 are fills, 92 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 207-215.

CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AC
PART AH
PART C
13 groovesJAACAHU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Little Piece of Heaven?

145 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 A Little Piece of Heaven hard to play on drums?

59 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

266 bars, about 7:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 A Little Piece of Heaven?

14 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 23, 31, 33, 35, 36, 38 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 266 BARS ANALYSED
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