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.

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

TEMPO

128 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

175

LENGTH

5:28

DIFFICULTY

46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-44, ride through bars 45-46, toms through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-84, and 6 more changes after that.

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.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---o---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-----x-|--x-----x-----x-|

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

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- J, D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 45-88 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Through Part A and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.