Back In The Village · Iron Maiden

165 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-18, 20-22 and 24-32, and 16 more places -- 63.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BACK IN THE VILLAGE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 62.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 8 sections: 137 keep time, 2 are fills, 9 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-61.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDES2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back In The Village?

126 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 Back In The Village hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Back In The Village?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 62.

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