Exciter (エキサイター) · JUDAS PRIEST

179 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-17, 27-33 and 80-86, and 2 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
EXCITER (エキサイター) · BARS 11-12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 10, 18, 34 and 34 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 16 sections: 114 keep time, 40 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-25.

CHORUS
PART K
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART X
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGKXOS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Exciter (エキサイター)?

130 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 (エキサイター) hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 (エキサイター)?

18 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 10, 18, 34 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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