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HELLIONS · Fit For An Autopsy

EXERCISE 6 OF 102
Groove E
42 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 102 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART AK
PART J
PART K
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AK
PART S9
CHORUS 2
PART AK
PART AW
OUTRO
16 groovesYAKS20S9AE+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play HELLIONS on drums

239 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
70/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-10, ride through bars 11-39, hi-hat through bars 40-44, ride through bars 45-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-52, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-44, 47-48 and 51-52, and 5 more places -- 6.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HELLIONS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 103 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 97 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is HELLIONS?

235 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 HELLIONS hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 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 HELLIONS?

27 fills to learn, played 103 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 97 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED