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Gas Chamber · Hexen

Gas Chamber · Hexen
EXERCISE 25 OF 73
Groove R
173 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
PART D
PART Z
PART AF
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGDZAFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gas Chamber on drums

239 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
87/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26 and toms through bars 27-28, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 15 and 31, and 28 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Gas Chamber -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 26, 27, 28 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-33 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gas Chamber?

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

Is Gas Chamber hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Gas Chamber?

22 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 26, 27, 28 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED