I Wanna Be No Hero · Accept

136 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 46-52, and 2 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
I WANNA BE NO HERO · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 32, 43 and 16 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 43-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 10 sections: 85 keep time, 22 are fills and 20 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-136.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAHNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Wanna Be No Hero?

135 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 Wanna Be No Hero hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Wanna Be No Hero?

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 32, 43 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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