HEROES · NAMBA69

210 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-62, 64 and 66, and 9 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
HEROES · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 27, 38, 51, 52, 53, 63 and 34 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 51-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 81-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 23 sections: 101 keep time, 40 are fills, 34 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-166.

PART C
PART H
PART U
PART AE
PART AJ
PART AW
CHORUS 3
20 groovesFAJHUC+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is HEROES?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is HEROES hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 26 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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?

16 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 27, 38, 51, 52, 53, 63 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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