Hellhounds On My Trail · Children Of Bodom

186 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 19-25 and 41-47, and 5 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 206 BPM
HELLHOUNDS ON MY TRAIL · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 26, 34, 37 and 22 more.

LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 206 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 206 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 14 sections: 134 keep time, 29 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-175.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART J
CHORUS 4
8 groovesFJZQT+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hellhounds On My Trail?

206 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Hellhounds On My Trail hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Hellhounds On My Trail?

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 26, 34, 37 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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