Black Wind, Fire and Steel · Manowar

141 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-22, 24 and 35-43, and 11 more places -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BLACK WIND, FIRE AND STEEL · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 23, 25, 44, 46, 65, 86 and 6 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 131-135 · LANDS ON BAR 136 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 10 sections: 91 keep time, 16 are fills, 18 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-43.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDGBHS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Wind, Fire and Steel?

150 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 Black Wind, Fire and Steel hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Black Wind, Fire and Steel?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 23, 25, 44, 46, 65, 86 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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