Hellbound · Gaerea

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 56, and 5 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 103 BPM
HELLBOUND · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 33, 34 and 31 more.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 103 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 18 sections: 63 keep time, 37 are fills and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-130.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
PART X
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S
PART X
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFBXAAS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hellbound?

103 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 Hellbound hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hellbound?

22 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 33, 34 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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