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Hell Patrol · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 11 OF 28
Join Chorus to Part F (bars 23-25)
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0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hell Patrol on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
42/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Hell Patrol -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-57 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 53-61 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-90 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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