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Hero Of The Day · Metallica

EXERCISE 42 OF 51
Run H4 · Outro (bars 86-93)
109 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART E
PART H
PART B
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesRHEBS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hero Of The Day on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-65 and snare through bars 66-77, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-76, 94-112 and 114-115, and 1 more place -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--xx--xx--xx--xx|
Hero Of The Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 33, 49, 63, 65, 77, 83 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- R, H -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-58 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-50 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-64 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-82 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 82-94 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hero Of The Day?

110 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 Hero Of The Day hard to play on drums?

55 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hero Of The Day?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 33, 49, 63, 65, 77, 83 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED