Broken Heroes · Saxon

146 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-12, 31 and 33, and 31 more places -- 39.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BROKEN HEROES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 30, 50, 56, 64, 72 and 8 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 8 sections: 122 keep time, 14 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 123-141.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Broken Heroes?

109 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 Broken 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Broken Heroes?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 30, 50, 56, 64, 72 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
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