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Behind The Gates Of Hell · Aegirson

EXERCISE 1 OF 72
Groove AY -- Part AY
0 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AY
CHORUS
PART T
PART R
PART AT
PART AY
PART BH
PART BK
OUTRO
15 groovesKRTAYM+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 5
JOIN · 17
LINK · 7
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Behind The Gates Of Hell on drums

150 bars, 8:58, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
8:58
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, toms through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-131, ride through bars 132-144 and hi-hat through bars 145-150.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 102-117 -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    103
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---x-----------x---x---|
Behind The Gates Of Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- AY -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-60 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-72 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Behind The Gates Of Hell?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Behind The Gates Of Hell hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 8:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Behind The Gates Of Hell?

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED