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Countdown to Hell · Clossfaith

Countdown to Hell · Clossfaith
EXERCISE 11 OF 62
Groove H
88 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART I
PART C
PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
12 groovesLDKCX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 5
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Countdown to Hell on drums

175 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-26, snare through bars 27-61, hi-hat through bars 62-68, snare through bars 69-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-93, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-71, 73-75 and 77-79, and 7 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x---x-|
Countdown to Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 34, 44, 84, 97, 101, 116 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- L, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 42-98 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 91-109 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Countdown to Hell?

190 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 Countdown to Hell hard to play on drums?

56 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Countdown to Hell?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 34, 44, 84, 97, 101, 116 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED