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Gates Of Hell · HFC

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove A -- Part A
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gates Of Hell on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-27 and snare through bars 28-31, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-22 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-47 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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