The Wicker Man · Iron Maiden

224 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 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 up
TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-63, 98-104 and 106-111, and 3 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 206 BPM
THE WICKER MAN · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 49, 64, 65, 81, 97 and 19 more.

LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

224 bars across 14 sections: 165 keep time, 25 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 162-192.

PART G
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
PART G
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesUGAZOK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Wicker Man?

206 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 Wicker Man hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Wicker Man?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 49, 64, 65, 81, 97 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED
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