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Aces High · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 18 OF 54
Fill at bar 74 and 122 (a small one)
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PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesGECFB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aces High on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
6:56
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-18, ride through bars 19-176, toms through bars 177-178, ride through bars 179-272 and kick and crashes through bars 273-275, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x--------|
Aces High -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-58 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 74-115 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 171-211 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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