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Hellhounds On My Trail · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 5 OF 69
Groove J -- Part J
57 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hellhounds On My Trail on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-25, snare through bars 26-32, toms through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, snare through bars 57-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-60, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Hellhounds On My Trail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-30 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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