Invincible Shield · Judas Priest

190 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 44-50 and 74-80, and 6 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
INVINCIBLE SHIELD · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 13, 21, 22, 23, 27, 31 and 36 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 18 sections: 117 keep time, 42 are fills, 11 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-96.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART AA
CHORUS 4
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEHAAXL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Invincible Shield?

120 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 Invincible Shield hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 6:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Invincible Shield?

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 13, 21, 22, 23, 27, 31 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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