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Eagle Fly Free · Helloween

EXERCISE 5 OF 45
Groove V -- Part V
69 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eagle Fly Free on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
85/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-29 and snare through bars 30-31, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Eagle Fly Free -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-83 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 144-186 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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