The Gods Made Heavy Metal · Manowar

207 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 5:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-56, 83-97 and 99-113, and 3 more places -- 60.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 162 BPM
THE GODS MADE HEAVY METAL · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 124 and 146.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

207 bars across 7 sections: 131 keep time, 2 are fills, 69 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-40.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCADS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Gods Made Heavy Metal?

162 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 The Gods Made Heavy Metal hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Gods Made Heavy Metal?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 124 and 146.

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