Heavy Metal Is The Law · Helloween

158 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-9, 18-24 and 26-33, and 15 more places -- 60.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HEAVY METAL IS THE LAW · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 25, 34, 40, 48, 57 and 13 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 11 sections: 126 keep time, 19 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-117.

PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFUGS2S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy Metal Is The Law?

140 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 Is The Law hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Heavy Metal Is The Law?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 25, 34, 40, 48, 57 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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