Into The Lungs Of Hell · Megadeth

135 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 17 more places -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 114 BPM
INTO THE LUNGS OF HELL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 49, 81, 85, 101, 105 and 4 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 129 · LANDS ON BAR 130

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 5 sections: 108 keep time, 10 are fills, 6 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-80.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDIHBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Into The Lungs Of Hell?

114 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 Into The Lungs Of Hell hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Into The Lungs Of Hell?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 48, 49, 81, 85, 101, 105 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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