Sanctuary · Iron Maiden

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11 and 16-21, and 10 more places -- 63% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 108 BPM
SANCTUARY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 33, 83, 84 and 89.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 89
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 4 sections: 73 keep time, 5 are fills and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-56.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sanctuary?

108 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 Sanctuary hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sanctuary?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 33, 83, 84 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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