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Be Quick Or Be Dead · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 33 PASSED · 84 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART B
OUTRO
3 groovesFIBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be Quick Or Be Dead on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
246 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-48, snare through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-64, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------x-----x--------|
Be Quick Or Be Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 74-166 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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