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Hero · Skillet

EXERCISE 27 OF 45
2-bar fill at bar 68
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0 / 45 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 3
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDIUBS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hero on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-61, snare through bars 62-67, toms through bars 68-69, hi-hat through bars 70-84, toms through bars 85-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-95, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-15 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-69 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-103 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 81-88 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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