Descending Upon Hades · Mendel

234 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 8:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
8:08
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 92, 144-151 and 189-195, and 2 more places -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
DESCENDING UPON HADES · BAR 92
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 32 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 25 sections: 113 keep time, 38 are fills, 37 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 206-216.

PART E
PART E
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesIES14APAO+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Descending Upon Hades?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Descending Upon Hades hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

234 bars, about 8:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Descending Upon Hades?

29 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 16, 20, 22 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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