Heroes Of Our Time · Dragonforce

342 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 6:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
342
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-43, 46-51 and 82-87, and 14 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
HEROES OF OUR TIME · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

38 fills to learn, played 85 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 8, 12, 15 and 79 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

34 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

342 bars across 22 sections: 179 keep time, 85 are fills, 38 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-100.

PART F
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART S12
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
10 groovesOAAFS12S22+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heroes Of Our Time?

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

Is Heroes Of Our Time hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

342 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 19 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Of Our Time?

38 fills to learn, played 85 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 8, 12, 15 and 79 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 342 BARS ANALYSED
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