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Hellhole · Immortal Disfigurement

EXERCISE 1 OF 65
Groove U -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AI
CHORUS 3
PART AM
19 groovesUIS1AMAI+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hellhole on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, silence through bars 22-23, snare through bars 24-37, toms through bars 38-39 and kick and crashes through bars 40-43, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-58, 68-69 and 79-81, and 2 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    51
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Hellhole -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 31, 35 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- U -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-22 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 8 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hellhole?

120 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 Hellhole hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Hellhole?

13 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 31, 35 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED