Hell Bent For Leather · Judas Priest

124 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 34 and 38, and 12 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
HELL BENT FOR LEATHER · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 3, 13, 17, 25, 29 and 7 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 9 sections: 68 keep time, 13 are fills, 31 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-112.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFHLDB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hell Bent For Leather?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hell Bent For Leather hard to play on drums?

64 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Hell Bent For Leather?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 3, 13, 17, 25, 29 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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