Exciter · Judas Priest

178 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 23 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 129 BPM
EXCITER · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 10, 18, 22 and 37 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 12 sections: 117 keep time, 43 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-141.

PART B
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIFBWFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exciter?

129 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 Exciter hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 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 Exciter?

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 10, 18, 22 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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