Gates Of Hell · HFC

82 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7 and 32-45 -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
GATES OF HELL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 25, 69, 73 and 2 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 13 sections: 42 keep time, 8 are fills, 9 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
BREAK 3
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDAFS9S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gates Of Hell?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Gates Of Hell hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Gates Of Hell?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 9, 17, 21, 25, 69, 73 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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