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A Match Made In Heaven · Architects

EXERCISE 19 OF 68
Run C2 · Chorus 2 (bars 55-63)
104 / 227 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Match Made In Heaven on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
243 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-36, toms through bars 37-39, silence through bars 40-41, ride through bars 42-73, hi-hat through bars 74-76 and toms through bars 77-82, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23                       24
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------------------|------------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x-----|------x--x--x--x--x-----|
A Match Made In Heaven -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-69 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R and Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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