Handshake With Hell · Arch Enemy

244 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 8:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
8:16
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-33, 35-41 and 45-51, and 8 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 118 BPM
HANDSHAKE WITH HELL · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 92, 116, 124, 142 and 8 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 116 · LANDS ON BAR 117

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 13 sections: 162 keep time, 14 are fills, 18 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-91.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART AD
8 groovesGTRS9AD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Handshake With Hell?

118 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 Handshake With Hell hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 8:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Handshake With Hell?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 92, 116, 124, 142 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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