Hell Is For Children · Pat Benatar

175 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-44, 73-79 and 81-84, and 6 more places -- 48.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
HELL IS FOR CHILDREN · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 47, 48, 87 and 175.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 175
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 10 sections: 150 keep time, 6 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-161.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesJDALW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hell Is For Children?

128 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 Is For Children hard to play on drums?

46 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Is For Children?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 7, 8, 47, 48, 87 and 175.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED
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