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Handshake With Hell · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 4 OF 52
Groove R -- Part R
84 / 244 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, OUTRO
PART S2
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART S9
PART AD
OUTRO
8 groovesGTRS9AD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Handshake With Hell on drums

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.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
8:16
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-19, toms through bars 20-26, hi-hat through bars 27-60, snare through bars 61-62 and ride through bars 63-64, and 36 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- G, K (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part R and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part T and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 142-159 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 167-200 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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