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Planet Hell · Nightwish

EXERCISE 7 OF 44
Run B1 · Part B (bars 19-36)
79 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART I
PART U
PART N
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
8 groovesGINBS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Planet Hell on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-34, hi-hat through bars 35-44, ride through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-60 and ride through bars 61-64, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 53-55, and 7 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxx-xxxxx-x-x-|
Planet Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 80 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- G, I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-69 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-80 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Planet Hell?

146 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 Planet Hell hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Planet Hell?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 80 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED