Hero · Skillet

108 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 31 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 142 BPM
HERO · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 20, 21, 29, 33, 37 and 23 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 37-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 10 sections: 67 keep time, 30 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-52.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDIUBS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hero?

142 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?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 8, 20, 21, 29, 33, 37 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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