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Heavy Metal · Sammy Hagar

Heavy Metal · Sammy Hagar
EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove M -- Outro 2
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavy Metal on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, ride through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-48, ride through bars 49-56, hi-hat through bars 57-70 and snare through bars 71-75, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- M, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-56 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-78 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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