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Heart Attack (AJ FFM riff) · Forged From Metal

Heart Attack (AJ FFM riff) · Forged From Metal
EXERCISE 37 OF 43
Run B4 · Part B (bars 206-213)
213 / 232 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART P
PART B
OUTRO
6 groovesFBOPS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heart Attack (AJ FFM riff) on drums

232 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 4:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-41, snare through bars 42-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-70, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 26-40 and 42-56, and 11 more places -- 61.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Heart Attack (AJ FFM riff) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-26 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 64-98 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 139-158 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 182-214 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 206-232 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heart Attack (AJ FFM riff)?

187 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 Heart Attack (AJ FFM riff) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Heart Attack (AJ FFM riff)?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED