Steel Lord on Wheels · Hibria

251 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 51-65 and 91-97, and 11 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 250 BPM
STEEL LORD ON WHEELS · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 48, 49, 104, 105 and 19 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 122 · LANDS ON BAR 123 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 129-130 · LANDS ON BAR 131 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 18 sections: 200 keep time, 25 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-32.

PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 5
PART L
CHORUS 7
5 groovesHCLZUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Steel Lord on Wheels?

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

Is Steel Lord on Wheels hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Steel Lord on Wheels?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 48, 49, 104, 105 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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