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Heeding The Call · HammerFall

EXERCISE 35 OF 66
2-bar fill at bar 77
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0 / 66 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART J
CHORUS 5
PART D
CHORUS 6
PART AD
6 groovesGDJADS21+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heeding The Call on drums

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.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-52, ride through bars 53-56, hi-hat through bars 57-68 and kick and crashes through bars 69-73, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-21 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-29 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-48 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-74 -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus 5 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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