Caught Somewhere In Time · Iron Maiden

301 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 12:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
301
LENGTH
12:01
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-39 and 41-43, and 35 more places -- 61.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CAUGHT SOMEWHERE IN TIME · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 20, 24, 40 and 39 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

301 bars across 9 sections: 241 keep time, 45 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-130.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGCS1PFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caught Somewhere In Time?

100 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 Caught Somewhere In Time hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

301 bars, about 12:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Caught Somewhere In Time?

19 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 10, 12, 16, 20, 24, 40 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 301 BARS ANALYSED
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