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EXERCISE 30 OF 40
Groove V
133 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
PART D
PART J
PART D
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesUJDAGAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hell Is For Children on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 5:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 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
176
LENGTH
5:29
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, ride through bars 45-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-70, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 99-106, 109-112 and 120-121, and 5 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    99
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-----x-|
Hell Is For Children -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 47, 56, 64 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- U, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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?

47 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 47, 56, 64 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED