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A Little Piece of Heaven · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 8 OF 77
Groove E -- Part E
62 / 266 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Little Piece of Heaven on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
266
LENGTH
7:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-15, toms through bars 16-19, ride through bars 20-23, hi-hat through bars 24-44 and snare through bars 45-52, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
A Little Piece of Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- Q, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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