Hard As Iron · Judas Priest

165 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 27 and 29, and 21 more places -- 38.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HARD AS IRON · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 10, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42 and 23 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 15 sections: 111 keep time, 32 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-25.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesCAOS9S11+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hard As Iron?

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 Hard As Iron hard to play on drums?

61 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hard As Iron?

17 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 10, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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