The Evil That Men Do · Iron Maiden

178 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 46 and 48, and 28 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 42, 58, 66, 92, 100 and 9 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 19 sections: 125 keep time, 17 are fills, 9 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-41.

PART S2
PART D
CHORUS
PART N
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART A
PART Z
PART U
PART N
PART M
13 groovesGMNDZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Evil That Men Do?

130 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 Evil That Men Do hard to play on drums?

54 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 The Evil That Men Do?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 24, 42, 58, 66, 92, 100 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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