Heeding The Call · HammerFall

154 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 25-27, and 11 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
HEEDING THE CALL · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 28 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 22 sections: 90 keep time, 34 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-138.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART D
CHORUS 6
PART AD
6 groovesGDJADS21+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heeding The Call?

138 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 Heeding The Call hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 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 Heeding The Call?

21 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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