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Hell Awaits · Slayer

EXERCISE 8 OF 59
Groove F -- Part F
150 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART B
PART D
PART F
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hell Awaits on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
8:29
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-29, ride through bars 30-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-49, hi-hat through bars 50-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-56 and silence through bars 57-59, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    73
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Hell Awaits -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- S, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-56 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-65 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-72 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-120 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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