Hells Bells · AC/DC

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-51, 61-63 and 65-75, and 4 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
HELLS BELLS · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 56, 80, 84, 100, 112 and 7 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 115-116 · LANDS ON BAR 117 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 13 sections: 93 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-51.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
7 groovesDHS1BA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hells Bells?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Hells Bells hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Hells Bells?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 56, 80, 84, 100, 112 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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