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Genghis Khan · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 7 OF 30
8-bar fill at bar 1
83 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Genghis Khan on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-86, hi-hat through bars 87-110 and snare through bars 111-115, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    34                               35
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----x-----------------------x---|--------------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Genghis Khan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-62 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-114 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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