Bonafide Heroes · Santa Cruz

162 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 57-63 and 81-87, and 5 more places -- 46.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BONAFIDE HEROES · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 46, 48, 56 and 16 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 14 sections: 94 keep time, 22 are fills, 19 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 145-162.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMDHS1A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bonafide Heroes?

152 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 Bonafide Heroes hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bonafide Heroes?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 46, 48, 56 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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