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My Hero · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 5 OF 31
Fill at bar 4, 12, 20 and 5 more (a small one)
109 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART C
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Hero on drums

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.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38, toms through bars 39-55, silence through bars 56-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-74, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    39               40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |--------f-f-----|--------f-f-----|
T1 |--------------x-|----------------|
T2 |--------------x-|x-x-------------|
FT |----------------|x-x-------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|----x-x-----x-x-|
My Hero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- G, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-92 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 93-109 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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