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Back In The Village · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 12 OF 18
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 13-102)
154 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 90 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDES2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Back In The Village on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-70, snare through bars 71-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-165.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x---x---|
Back In The Village -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-142 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED