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Wrathchild · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 22 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART N, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBNKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wrathchild on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, toms through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35, toms through bars 36-39, hi-hat through bars 40-70 and toms through bars 71-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 14 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxgxxgxx|
SD |----x---x--x--x-|
BD |x--x-----xx-xx--|
Wrathchild -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-73 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Wrathchild?

104 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 Wrathchild hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Wrathchild?

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED