Chad Kroeger - Hero · Nickelback

77 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 74 BPM, 3:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 6-8 and 15, and 7 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 74 BPM
CHAD KROEGER - HERO · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 13, 21, 33, 39, 41 and 6 more.

LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 74 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 9 sections: 49 keep time, 12 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-12.

PART C
PART F
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJCFS6B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chad Kroeger - Hero?

74 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Chad Kroeger - Hero hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Chad Kroeger - Hero?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 1, 13, 21, 33, 39, 41 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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