Hellrider · Judas Priest

208 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 5:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-25 and 35-37, and 14 more places -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 157 BPM
HELLRIDER · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 26, 34, 38 and 21 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 16 sections: 158 keep time, 27 are fills, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-90.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART G
PART Q
6 groovesDQGS1S9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hellrider?

157 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 Hellrider hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Hellrider?

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 26, 34, 38 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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