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Hard As Iron · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 12 OF 53
Join Chorus to Part A (bars 33-35)
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0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesCAOS9S11+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hard As Iron on drums

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.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-116, kick and crashes through bars 117-127, hi-hat through bars 128-133, snare through bars 134-135, hi-hat through bars 136-149 and toms through bars 150-151, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x-x-xx--x-|
Hard As Iron -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-59 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 105-144 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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