Hellyeah · Hellyeah

144 bars at 189 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
189 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-26 and 47-60 -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 189 BPM
HELLYEAH · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 27, 28, 36, 44, 61, 62 and 13 more.

LOOP · 189 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 189 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 189 BPM
BARS 105-108 · LANDS ON BAR 109 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 9 sections: 57 keep time, 19 are fills, 54 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-104.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIENAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hellyeah?

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

Is Hellyeah hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hellyeah?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 27, 28, 36, 44, 61, 62 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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