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The Apparition · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove B -- Part B
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Apparition on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
39/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-16, snare through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-57, toms through bars 58-60 and snare through bars 61-69, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18-20, and 5 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 21, 58, 59, 60, 61 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B, G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-62 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Apparition?

100 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 The Apparition hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 The Apparition?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 21, 58, 59, 60, 61 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED