Bang your head for satan · Gehennah

104 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6-10 and 12-14, and 12 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BANG YOUR HEAD FOR SATAN · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 11, 61, 62, 88, 93 and 103.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 83 keep time, 6 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-34.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCIHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bang your head for satan?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Bang your head for satan hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Bang your head for satan?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 11, 61, 62, 88, 93 and 103.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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