Eagleheart · Stratovarius

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-17, 21-27 and 49-55 -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
EAGLEHEART · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 18, 28 and 12 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 8-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 17 sections: 66 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-27.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Eagleheart?

100 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 Eagleheart hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 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 Eagleheart?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 8, 9, 10, 18, 28 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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