Arpeggios From Hell · Yngwie Malmsteen

100 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11 and 13, and 13 more places -- 64% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 186 BPM
ARPEGGIOS FROM HELL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 34, 42, 50, 58, 66 and 3 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 66-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 8 sections: 75 keep time, 9 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
2 groovesCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arpeggios From Hell?

186 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 Arpeggios From Hell hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Arpeggios From Hell?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 34, 42, 50, 58, 66 and 3 more.

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