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A Little Piece Of Heaven (Live In The Lbc) · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 8 OF 101
Join Part C to Part D (bars 14-16)
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0 / 101 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART AA
PART BA
PART A
15 groovesKADAAWC+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Little Piece Of Heaven (Live In The Lbc) 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.

58 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
58/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-15, toms through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-40, ride through bars 41-44 and snare through bars 45-52, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-66, 69-72 and 77-79, and 8 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65               66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|----------------|
RD |------------x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----g-|--g-----x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x-----x---x-|
A Little Piece Of Heaven (Live In The Lbc) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 23, 31, 33, 35, 36, 38 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- AA, BA -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-20 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Little Piece Of Heaven (Live In The Lbc)?

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 (Live In The Lbc) hard to play on drums?

58 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 44 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 77 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 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 (Live In The Lbc)?

23 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 23, 31, 33, 35, 36, 38 and 46 more.

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