The Trooper · Iron Maiden

169 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 18, and 16 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 162 BPM
THE TROOPER · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 21 sections: 142 keep time and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART AI
PART V
PART S
OUTRO 2
13 groovesFSVAAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Trooper?

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 Trooper hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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.

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