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Heroes · Motörhead

EXERCISE 15 OF 21
Fill at bar 31, 61 and 106 (a small one)
105 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heroes on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 2-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22 and toms through bars 23-24, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Heroes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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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