Where Eagles Dare · Iron Maiden

231 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-10, 12-13 and 15-20, and 19 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 230 BPM
WHERE EAGLES DARE · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 11, 14, 21, 22 and 46 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 16 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

231 bars across 11 sections: 167 keep time, 52 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-81.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
PART AL
PART Q
OUTRO
9 groovesCQALUAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Where Eagles Dare?

230 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Where Eagles Dare hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Where Eagles Dare?

16 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 1, 2, 11, 14, 21, 22 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED
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