Heavy Metal World · TSA

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-19 and 21-27, and 4 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
HEAVY METAL WORLD · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 31, 35, 36 and 9 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 8 sections: 72 keep time, 15 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-55.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCALGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy Metal World?

80 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 World hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 World?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 20, 28, 31, 35, 36 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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