WLM - Iron Man · Ross Carnes

69 bars, 3:57, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick and nothing else.

Funk / SoulMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 13 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 70 BPM
WLM - IRON MAN · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 5 sections: 63 keep time and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-44.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDHAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is WLM - Iron Man?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is WLM - Iron Man hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:57 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, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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