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The Pilgrim · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 32 OF 86
Groove O -- Part O
125 / 181 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART O
PART K
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART M
PART AG
12 groovesHKAGMB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 18
LINK · 13
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Pilgrim on drums

181 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 7:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
7:37
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, snare through bars 30-45, hi-hat through bars 46-53, ride through bars 54-69, snare through bars 70-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-109, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-21, 46-53 and 78-84, and 3 more places -- 17.7% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
The Pilgrim -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 7, 9, 29, 61, 65 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- H, K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-22 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-50 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part O -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Pilgrim?

95 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 Pilgrim hard to play on drums?

55 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 7:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pilgrim?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 7, 9, 29, 61, 65 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED