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At The Gates Of Hell · Bewitched

EXERCISE 4 OF 31
Groove I -- Part I
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PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGILAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play At The Gates Of Hell on drums

98 bars, 8:10, at 48 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
48 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
8:10
DIFFICULTY
60/100

ride through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, silence through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, ride through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 6 more places -- 28.1% 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 |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--xx--xx-x-x-x|
At The Gates Of Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 36, 72 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part A and Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-37 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-76 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is At The Gates Of Hell?

48 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 At The Gates Of Hell hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 8:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 At The Gates Of Hell?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 36, 72 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED