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The Wicker Man · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 9 OF 74
Groove I
104 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
PART K
PART O
CHORUS
PART G
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesUGAZOK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Wicker Man on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-65, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Wicker Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, AZ -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-37 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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