Hell Awaits · Slayer

221 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 8:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
8:29
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 72-78, 80-87 and 92-98, and 14 more places -- 51.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
HELL AWAITS · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 29, 37, 54, 55, 59, 61 and 20 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 16 sections: 165 keep time, 27 are fills, 11 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 204-218.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
12 groovesSBWDJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hell Awaits?

104 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 Hell Awaits hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 8:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 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 Hell Awaits?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 29, 37, 54, 55, 59, 61 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED
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