Piece Of Time · Atheist

206 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 6:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
6:26
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 5% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-16, 19-20 and 27-28, and 2 more places -- 5.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
PIECE OF TIME · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 26, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51 and 43 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 24 sections: 97 keep time, 49 are fills, 15 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-44.

COUNT-IN
PART AF
PART AV
PART BD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesBXBLAADI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Piece Of Time?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Piece Of Time hard to play on drums?

64 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 26 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 Piece Of Time?

27 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 26, 45, 47, 48, 49, 51 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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