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Broken Heroes · Saxon

EXERCISE 29 OF 38
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 101-103)
138 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Heroes on drums

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.

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
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 3-146.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-62 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-65 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 72-103 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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