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Where Eagles Dare · Iron Maiden

Where Eagles Dare · Iron Maiden
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EXERCISE 5 OF 74
Groove P
60 / 231 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
PART AB
PART AL
PART Q
OUTRO
9 groovesCQALUAB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where Eagles Dare on drums

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.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
85/100

toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-86, hi-hat through bars 87-90, ride through bars 91-122, hi-hat through bars 123-139 and ride through bars 140-145, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    3                        4
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
RD |--x-x-------x-x-x-------|x-x-x-------x-x---------|
SD |------x--x--------x--x--|------x-x---x---x-------|
T2 |------------------------|------------------x-----|
FT |------------------------|--------------------x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-------x-x-x-x-----|x-x-x-----x---x---------|
HF |------------------------|x-----x-----x-----x---x-|
Where Eagles Dare -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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