Kings Of Metal · Manowar

120 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-14 and 17-19, and 10 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 133 BPM
KINGS OF METAL · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 69 and 70.

LOOP · 133 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 8 sections: 103 keep time, 2 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-66.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFCDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kings Of Metal?

133 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 Kings Of Metal hard to play on drums?

50 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Kings Of Metal?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 69 and 70.

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