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

EXERCISE 31 OF 39
Groove Q
100 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Can I Play With Madness (LIVE!) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 3-27, ride through bars 28-41, snare through bars 42-68, ride through bars 69-82, snare through bars 83-100 and ride through bars 101-108, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------xx--x-|
Can I Play With Madness (LIVE!) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-31 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-83 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-110 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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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