Heading Northe · Stormwarrior

185 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-64, 97-112 and 121-134 -- 24.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
HEADING NORTHE · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 16, 20, 23 and 36 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 12 sections: 123 keep time, 42 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 161-179.

PART A
PART H
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
5 groovesRADHEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heading Northe?

175 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 Heading Northe hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 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 Heading Northe?

17 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 4, 8, 15, 16, 20, 23 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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