Warrior · Helloween

163 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-24, and 20 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
WARRIOR · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 3, 4, 11, 12, 15, 16 and 25 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 11 sections: 109 keep time, 34 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-88.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDNGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Warrior?

180 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 Warrior hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Warrior?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 3, 4, 11, 12, 15, 16 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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