Wheels Of Fire · Manowar

155 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-20, 30-32 and 34, and 10 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 175 BPM
WHEELS OF FIRE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 155.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 155
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 14 sections: 138 keep time, 1 is a fill, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-129.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
CHORUS 4
PART D
7 groovesCDAFS13+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wheels Of Fire?

175 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 Wheels Of Fire hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in Wheels Of Fire?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 155.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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