The Prisoner · Iron Maiden

157 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 6:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-60, 83-89 and 91-98, and 4 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
THE PRISONER · BAR 56
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 51 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 13 sections: 79 keep time, 57 are fills and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-125.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART L
PART O
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesUDABLO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Prisoner?

93 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 Prisoner hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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 Prisoner?

16 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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