The Number Of The Beast · Iron Maiden

209 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-61, 70-86 and 94-97, and 21 more places -- 44.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 198 BPM
THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST · BARS 47-48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 35, 38, 44, 98, 106, 114 and 6 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 19 sections: 143 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 36 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-86.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
BREAK 7
11 groovesHKS1CS19+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Number Of The Beast?

198 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 Number Of The Beast hard to play on drums?

49 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Number Of The Beast?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 35, 38, 44, 98, 106, 114 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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