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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

168 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

176

LENGTH

4:13

DIFFICULTY

58/100

ride through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-160, toms through bars 161-164, kick and crashes through bars 165-167 and toms through bars 168-176.

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|

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

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. Bars 3-24 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 15-28 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
7. Bars 85-165 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.