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Steel Lord on Wheels · Hibria

EXERCISE 6 OF 51
Groove D
176 / 251 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 5
PART L
CHORUS 7
PART C
5 groovesHCLZUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Steel Lord on Wheels on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-24, snare through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-48 and snare through bars 49-50, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Steel Lord on Wheels -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-188 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Chorus 5 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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