Despicable Heroes · Arch Enemy

64 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 15-17, and 3 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DESPICABLE HEROES · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 64.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 63-64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

64 bars across 12 sections: 41 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART P
PART R
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCFRXJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Despicable Heroes?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Despicable Heroes hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Despicable Heroes?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 63 and 64.

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