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The Prisoner · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 7 OF 66
Fill at bar 14 and 22 (a small one)
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Prisoner on drums

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.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-44, ride through bars 45-53, snare through bars 54-73, ride through bars 74-82 and snare through bars 83-98, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x---x---x---x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x-x-x--x--x|
HF |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Prisoner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- U -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Break and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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