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Heart Of Steel · Manowar

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 64 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
5 groovesBFS1S5S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heart Of Steel on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-81 and kick and crashes through bars 82-85.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-27 and 29-34, and 10 more places -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
Heart Of Steel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 28.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Heart Of Steel?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Heart Of Steel hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Heart Of Steel?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 28.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED