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Hell · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 21 OF 75
Fill at bar 26 (a small one)
60 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART T
PART D
PART N
PART T
CHORUS
PART AM
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART BI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesACTNDAM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hell on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
69/100

ride through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-14, snare through bars 15-18, ride through bars 19-29, toms through bars 30-31 and snare through bars 32-39, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-35, 38-39 and 50, and 7 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- Y, AD -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-24 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part T -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-48 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hell?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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?

19 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED