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Arpeggios From Hell · Yngwie Malmsteen

EXERCISE 2 OF 18
Groove A (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 18 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
2 groovesCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Arpeggios From Hell on drums

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.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-31, toms through bars 32-34, hi-hat through bars 35-65, toms through bars 66-68 and snare through bars 69-70, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x-x-x---x---x-x-|
Arpeggios From Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-35 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED