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Hero · Ozzy Osbourne

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove D -- Part D
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART F
PART J
PART O
PART S
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCJONF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hero on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, toms through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-56, toms through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-68, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 27 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Hero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 28, 36, 56, 64, 68, 76 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-95 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hero?

108 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 hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hero?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 28, 36, 56, 64, 68, 76 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED