Heavy Metal · Sammy Hagar

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 79-99, 103-104 and 108, and 6 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
HEAVY METAL · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 18, 22, 40, 48, 52 and 5 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 100-102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 8 sections: 99 keep time, 11 are fills, 15 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 120-133.

PART A
PART G
PART A
PART D
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesMAGDKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy Metal?

91 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 hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 10, 18, 22, 40, 48, 52 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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