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Hell Bent For Leather · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 6 OF 34
Fill at bar 25
85 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hell Bent For Leather on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-49, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------|
Hell Bent For Leather -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-34 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-117 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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