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Heroes To Us · Kalmah

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove S -- Outro 2
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CHORUS
PART K
PART K
PART S
PART V
PART Y
PART AD
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDKHSAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heroes To Us on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
95/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-52 and snare through bars 53-60, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-58, 114-116 and 118-121 -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Heroes To Us -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 59, 75, 80, 81, 84 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- S -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-40 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heroes To Us?

100 BPM, in 4/4, 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 To Us hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 To Us?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 59, 75, 80, 81, 84 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED