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Hellevator · Thundermother

EXERCISE 6 OF 23
Fill at bar 22 and 66
72 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesECS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hellevator on drums

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

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-20, snare through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-28, snare through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Hellevator -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- E, C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 22-68 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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