Heroes · David Bowie

90 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 47-51 and 55, and 1 more place -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 113 BPM
HEROES · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 24, 44 and 52.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 5 sections: 80 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-74.

PART A
PART E
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGAFEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heroes?

113 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 Heroes hard to play on drums?

57 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Heroes?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 24, 44 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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