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hell for a basement · drug bug

EXERCISE 26 OF 38
Groove T
56 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART N
PART A
OUTRO
7 groovesIANCD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play hell for a basement on drums

83 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 1:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
1:31
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-61 and ride through bars 62-73, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 6 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |X---x---x---|
BD |------x-----|
hell for a basement -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 37.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- H, Z -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part A and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is hell for a basement?

165 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is hell for a basement hard to play on drums?

55 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 1:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 for a basement?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33 and 37.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED