Slice Of Heaven · Dave Dobbyn

140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

PopRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48, 52 and 81-85, and 9 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SLICE OF HEAVEN · BAR 101
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 9 sections: 114 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-140.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBCS1D+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slice Of Heaven?

120 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 Slice Of Heaven 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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