Hell Patrol · Judas Priest

133 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 5:18 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 33-39, and 4 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
HELL PATROL · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 2 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 10 sections: 72 keep time, 8 are fills and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesCS10FAKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hell Patrol?

150 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Patrol hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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