Wasted Years · Iron Maiden

190 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82, 84 and 86-87, and 21 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
WASTED YEARS · BAR 84
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 41 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 8-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 25-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 14 sections: 109 keep time, 49 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 166-176.

PART C
PART M
PART L
PART M
CHORUS
PART H
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAMHMCAN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wasted Years?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Wasted Years hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

190 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 27 sittings, about 23 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 Wasted Years?

14 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED
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