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Hallowed Point · Slayer

EXERCISE 18 OF 68
Fill at bar 58
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0 / 68 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hallowed Point on drums

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.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
218 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
100/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, ride through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58 and ride through bars 59-66, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Hallowed Point -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-51 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-75 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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