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Holy Hell · Architects

EXERCISE 11 OF 53
Groove O
34 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART U
PART AE
PART S10
PART U
PART AP
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCUKAEAP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Holy Hell on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-24, toms through bars 25-27, snare through bars 28-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-37 and snare through bars 38-51, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 28-29, and 1 more place -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                                                                10
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---------------|
SD |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x---x---|--------x---------------x---------------x-------x-------f---x---|
BD |x---x---------------x---------------x---------------x-----------|x---x-------x-------x---------------x-------x-------x-----------|
Holy Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 31, 44, 45, 52, 54 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, U -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-32 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 28-46 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Break 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Holy Hell?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Holy Hell hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Holy Hell?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 31, 44, 45, 52, 54 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED