Can I Play With Madness (LIVE!) · Iron Maiden

131 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-9 and 12-13, and 9 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS (LIVE!) · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 12 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 13 sections: 56 keep time, 18 are fills, 43 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-108.

CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART B
PART O
OUTRO
9 groovesCHBFO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Can I Play With Madness (LIVE!)?

145 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 Can I Play With Madness (LIVE!) hard to play on drums?

45 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Can I Play With Madness (LIVE!)?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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