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Invincible Shield · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 2 OF 79
Groove H -- Part H
55 / 190 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART AA
CHORUS 4
PART X
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEHAAXL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Invincible Shield on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
6:21
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bars 2-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-9, toms through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-20, toms through bars 21-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-39, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Invincible Shield -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-14 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-57 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 69-85 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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