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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

180 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

163

LENGTH

3:37

DIFFICULTY

59/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, toms through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-38, and 8 more changes after that.

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--xxx-xx--x-|

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

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
3. Bars 15-60 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through Part N and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.