Piece Of Your Heart · Mayday Parade

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 25-32 and 57-63 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
PIECE OF YOUR HEART · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 73 and 81.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 11 sections: 55 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-12.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBGJLS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Piece Of Your Heart?

100 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 Piece Of Your Heart hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Piece Of Your Heart?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 40, 73 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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