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The Evil That Men Do · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 25 OF 60
Chorus into Part N with the record (bars 51-58)
124 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART N
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Evil That Men Do on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-42, ride through bars 43-74, hi-hat through bars 75-92, ride through bars 93-116 and kick and crashes through bars 117-120, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|
RD |x---x---x-x-x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--xx----x-x---x-|
The Evil That Men Do -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- N, M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part S4 and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-67 -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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