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Wasted Years · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 10 OF 82
Groove G
77 / 190 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART H, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 5
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wasted Years on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, toms through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-55, snare through bars 56-57, hi-hat through bars 58-72 and toms through bars 73-75, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    84
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Wasted Years -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- AM -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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