The Trooper (Remixed and Remastered) · Iron Maiden (Remixed by Godzilla)

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.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 57-63 and 129-135 -- 12.8% 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 (REMIXED AND REMASTERED) · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167 and 2 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 162-169 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

169 bars across 20 sections: 130 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-125.

PART G
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AF
CHORUS 3
PART T
13 groovesLTXAFG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Trooper (Remixed and Remastered)?

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 (Remixed and Remastered) hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 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 49 exercises over 17 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.

How many fills are in The Trooper (Remixed and Remastered)?

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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