Hallowed Point · Slayer

153 bars at 218 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
218 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19-25 and 43-49, and 13 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 218 BPM
HALLOWED POINT · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 26, 50, 58, 73, 74, 76 and 32 more.

LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 218 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 11 sections: 90 keep time, 39 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-25.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECAGAPIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hallowed Point?

218 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 Hallowed Point hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hallowed Point?

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 26, 50, 58, 73, 74, 76 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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