Heroes · Motörhead

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 17, and 18 more places -- 47.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
HEROES · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 31, 38, 54, 61 and 4 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 9 sections: 92 keep time, 10 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-81.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBES7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heroes?

94 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?

45 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Heroes?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 31, 38, 54, 61 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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