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Prowler · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 13 OF 47
Join Part E to Part D (bars 36-38)
59 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART D
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prowler on drums

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.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
92/100

silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-65, silence through bars 66-68, kick and crashes through bars 69-76, snare through bars 77-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-109, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    117
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-|
SD |------------------------------x-------------------------------x-|
BD |--------------x-------x-----------------------x-------x---------|
Prowler -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- U -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 38-65 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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