A Match Made In Heaven · Architects

227 bars at 243 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
243 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23-25, 27-28 and 31-32, and 15 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 243 BPM
A MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN · BARS 23-24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 30, 37, 65, 77, 79, 80 and 14 more.

LOOP · 243 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 243 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 243 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 243 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 18 sections: 122 keep time, 20 are fills, 27 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 138-152.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART S14
PART AK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCRAFKS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Match Made In Heaven?

243 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is A Match Made In Heaven hard to play on drums?

49 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A Match Made In Heaven?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 30, 37, 65, 77, 79, 80 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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