My Hero · Foo Fighters

156 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-45, 47-53 and 75-81, and 5 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
MY HERO · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 30, 38, 46 and 11 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 12 sections: 111 keep time, 17 are fills, 17 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-29.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGCS8AE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Hero?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My Hero hard to play on drums?

48 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 My Hero?

4 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 30, 38, 46 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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