Prowler · Iron Maiden

165 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 108, 116-121 and 124-128, and 3 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
PROWLER · BAR 117
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 28, 44, 52, 56, 60 and 9 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 12 sections: 114 keep time, 15 are fills, 16 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-144.

CHORUS
PART E
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART M
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAUMED+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prowler?

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

Is Prowler hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 89 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Prowler?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 28, 44, 52, 56, 60 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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