Keeper Of The Seven Keys · Helloween

360 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 17:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
360
LENGTH
17:42
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 265-267, 271-272 and 279-286, and 8 more places -- 8.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
KEEPER OF THE SEVEN KEYS · BAR 266
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

36 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 73 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 10-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

32 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

360 bars across 38 sections: 191 keep time, 82 are fills, 41 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 219-227.

PART S5
PART AR
PART CH
CHORUS
25 groovesDAAEXCHBX+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keeper Of The Seven Keys?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Keeper Of The Seven Keys hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

360 bars, about 17:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 130 exercises over 42 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Keeper Of The Seven Keys?

36 fills to learn, played 79 times: bars 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 73 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 360 BARS ANALYSED
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