Aces High · Iron Maiden

278 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 29 and 31, and 59 more places -- 59.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
ACES HIGH · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 34, 50, 66, 74, 82, 114 and 14 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

278 bars across 10 sections: 223 keep time, 21 are fills, 25 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 211-249.

PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesGECFB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aces High?

160 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 Aces High 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

278 bars, about 6:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Aces High?

16 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 34, 50, 66, 74, 82, 114 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED
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