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Chad Kroeger - Hero · Nickelback

EXERCISE 27 OF 39
3-bar fill at bar 44
60 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chad Kroeger - Hero on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-11, toms through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-19, toms through bars 20-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-31, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.......2.......3.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x---------------|
Chad Kroeger - Hero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-34 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-57 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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