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EXERCISE 28 OF 28
Play the whole song with the record
136 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 136 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDAHNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Wanna Be No Hero on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-32, snare through bars 33-52, hi-hat through bars 53-65, snare through bars 66-102 and hi-hat through bars 103-107, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
I Wanna Be No Hero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-104 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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