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Heavy Metal World · TSA

EXERCISE 40 OF 45
Run A2 · Part A (bars 67-86)
96 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavy Metal World on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, snare through bars 31-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-100.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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, A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-57 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-67 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-100 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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