Deja-Vu · Iron Maiden

224 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 6:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-37, 40-41 and 60-61, and 11 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DEJA-VU · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 85, 93, 125, 157, 165 and 3 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 125 · LANDS ON BAR 126
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 157 · LANDS ON BAR 158

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 20 sections: 181 keep time, 9 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-148.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART AG
PART Y
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
10 groovesMYGNAG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deja-Vu?

140 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 Deja-Vu hard to play on drums?

62 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Deja-Vu?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 85, 93, 125, 157, 165 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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