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Hel · Amon Amarth

EXERCISE 21 OF 47
Fill at bar 53, 57, 109 and 113 (a small one)
89 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART T
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFILTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hel on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 121 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-25, snare through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57, snare through bars 58-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-81, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 8 and 10-16, and 6 more places -- 32% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
Hel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B, F -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-29 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-86 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hel?

121 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 Hel hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Hel?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED