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Hell · King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

EXERCISE 10 OF 41
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
78 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART G
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
PART G
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCIERS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hell on drums

129 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-18, toms through bars 19-22 and snare through bars 23-24, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 15-17, and 5 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 18, 23, 24, 28, 36 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-59 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hell?

172 BPM, in 4/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 18, 23, 24, 28, 36 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED