Heroes Of Sand · Angra

102 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 3:36 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-31, 33-34 and 43-48, and 4 more places -- 58.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
HEROES OF SAND · BARS 21-22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 14, 20, 35, 36, 49 and 5 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 6 sections: 83 keep time, 11 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-102.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHBLDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heroes Of Sand?

85 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Of Sand hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Sand?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 14, 20, 35, 36, 49 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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