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I Am Hell Sonata In C# · Machine Head

EXERCISE 8 OF 94
Run C1 · Part C (bars 12-16)
61 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART A
PART C
PART E
PART M
PART Y
PART AD
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesTEAAMAD+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 5
JOIN · 21
LINK · 4
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Hell Sonata In C# on drums

206 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 6:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
6:04
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-36, silence through bars 37-39, toms through bars 40-44, snare through bars 45-53 and toms through bars 54-55, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 142 and 175-181, and 1 more place -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    175
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------x---------------|
I Am Hell Sonata In C# -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 40, 41, 43 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 34-42 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S4 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Am Hell Sonata In C#?

136 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 I Am Hell Sonata In C# hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 6:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Am Hell Sonata In C#?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 40, 41, 43 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED