Holding Out For A Hero · Bonnie Tyler

215 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:44 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
5:44
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 78% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-19 and 21-35, and 15 more places -- 78.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HOLDING OUT FOR A HERO · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 4 sections: 211 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-106.

VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
3 groovesAEFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holding Out For A Hero?

150 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 Holding Out For A Hero hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 5:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 7 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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