Hellevator · Thundermother

89 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 25-28 and 31-34, and 7 more places -- 48.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
HELLEVATOR · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 29, 30, 46, 53, 54 and 5 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 8 sections: 65 keep time, 12 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-45.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hellevator?

112 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Hellevator hard to play on drums?

43 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hellevator?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 29, 30, 46, 53, 54 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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