Genghis Khan · Iron Maiden

120 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 37-41 and 43-47, and 5 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
GENGHIS KHAN · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 13 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 89-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 7 sections: 81 keep time, 19 are fills, 9 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-73.

PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKRENH+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Genghis Khan?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Genghis Khan hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 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 Genghis Khan?

4 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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