Eagle Fly Free · Helloween

195 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 4:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-18, 20-24 and 26-28, and 10 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 157 BPM
EAGLE FLY FREE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 19 and 64 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 3-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 29-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 14 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 8 sections: 102 keep time, 74 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-18.

CHORUS
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesIVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eagle Fly Free?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Eagle Fly Free hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Eagle Fly Free?

17 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 19 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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