Fall of a Hero · pentagram

195 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-14, 17-24 and 37-39, and 12 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
FALL OF A HERO · BARS 7-8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 16, 40, 56, 63, 64 and 10 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 161 · LANDS ON BAR 162
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 18 sections: 107 keep time, 16 are fills, 34 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-89.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART A
PART S
OUTRO
6 groovesCHAIS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fall of a Hero?

160 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 Fall of a Hero hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fall of a Hero?

4 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 15, 16, 40, 56, 63, 64 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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