Heavy Metal Balad · Blazed

45 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 1:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
1:30
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-24 -- 48.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HEAVY METAL BALAD · BAR 4
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 4 sections: 39 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFLDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy Metal Balad?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Heavy Metal Balad hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 1:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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