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Heavy Metal Universe · Gamma Ray

EXERCISE 1 OF 55
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCJLHO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavy Metal Universe on drums

223 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-45, ride through bars 46-53, hi-hat through bars 54-93, ride through bars 94-98, hi-hat through bars 99-119 and kick and crashes through bars 120-121, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-16, 18-26 and 28-42, and 11 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 45, 69, 75, 109, 117, 119 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-46 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-57 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-98 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-121 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 5 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heavy Metal Universe?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Heavy Metal Universe hard to play on drums?

56 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Universe?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 45, 69, 75, 109, 117, 119 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED