Children Of The Damned · Iron Maiden

141 bars, 8:04, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
8:04
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-71 -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 14 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 9 sections: 109 keep time, 20 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-71.

PART L
PART L
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesWQTLI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Children Of The Damned?

70 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Children Of The Damned hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 8:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Children Of The Damned?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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