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i am a HERO · Burnout Syndromes

i am a HERO · Burnout Syndromes
EXERCISE 30 OF 75
Groove Y -- Part Y
106 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AI
PART AX
OUTRO 2
18 groovesIAXAICU+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play i am a HERO on drums

205 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-63, silence through bars 64-65, hi-hat through bars 66-67 and silence through bars 68-69, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 148-154, 156-162 and 164-179 -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    165
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
i am a HERO -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 48, 49, 51, 79, 80, 81 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- AX, AI -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-35 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is i am a HERO?

140 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 i am a HERO hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 i am a HERO?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 48, 49, 51, 79, 80, 81 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED