Heavy Metal Drummer · Wilco

92 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 21 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 121 BPM
HEAVY METAL DRUMMER · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 91 and 92.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BARS 91-92 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 9 sections: 79 keep time, 2 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-52.

PART C
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART B
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEHBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy Metal Drummer?

121 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 Drummer hard to play on drums?

57 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Heavy Metal Drummer?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 91 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED
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