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Heavy Metal Drummer · Wilco

EXERCISE 6 OF 22
Run C1 · Part C (bars 2-18)
71 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavy Metal Drummer on drums

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

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 2-92.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Heavy Metal Drummer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-32 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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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