Be Quick Or Be Dead · Iron Maiden

213 bars at 246 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
246 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-24 and 27-29, and 36 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 246 BPM
BE QUICK OR BE DEAD · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 74, 92, 93, 165, 181, 188 and 2 more.

LOOP · 246 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 246 BPM
BARS 92-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 246 BPM
BAR 165 · LANDS ON BAR 166 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 246 BPM
BARS 188-189 · LANDS ON BAR 190 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 12 sections: 150 keep time, 8 are fills and 42 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-112.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
3 groovesFIBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Be Quick Or Be Dead?

246 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 Be Quick Or Be Dead hard to play on drums?

63 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 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 Be Quick Or Be Dead?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 74, 92, 93, 165, 181, 188 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED
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