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Revelations · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 1 OF 123
Groove H -- Part H
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PART A
PART N
CHORUS
PART AD
PART I
PART AQ
PART H
PART AD
PART BJ
PART AD
PART BV
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesRADNAAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 29
LAND · 29
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 13
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Revelations on drums

258 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 7:17 of playing, 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
7:17
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-15, hi-hat through bars 16-18, ride through bars 19-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41 and ride through bars 42-56, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 23 and 42, and 11 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Revelations -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

29 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 3, 15, 17, 18, 22, 26 and 53 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 93 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 -- H, N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AD -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part AD and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Revelations?

141 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Revelations hard to play on drums?

58 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 7:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 23 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 Revelations?

29 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 3, 15, 17, 18, 22, 26 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED