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Bonafide Heroes · Santa Cruz

EXERCISE 36 OF 51
Fill at bar 104
125 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bonafide Heroes on drums

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

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-46, hi-hat through bars 47-48 and snare through bars 49-68, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Bonafide Heroes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- M, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-49 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-69 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 103-120 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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