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Hellbound · Gaerea

EXERCISE 1 OF 81
Groove F -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hellbound on drums

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.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
86/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-24, snare through bars 25-32, toms through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-40, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Hellbound -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-25 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-37 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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