Only The Good Die Young · Iron Maiden

176 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-29, 31 and 33-45, and 9 more places -- 65.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 168 BPM
ONLY THE GOOD DIE YOUNG · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 48, 80 and 14 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 8 sections: 140 keep time, 20 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-79.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesLTBEK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only The Good Die Young?

168 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 Only The Good Die Young hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Only The Good Die Young?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 32, 48, 80 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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