Roundtrip To Hell And Back · Children Of Bodom

101 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 33-39 and 48, and 10 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 118 BPM
ROUNDTRIP TO HELL AND BACK · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 49 and 11 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 17 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-99.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
5 groovesCAERS10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Roundtrip To Hell And Back?

118 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 Roundtrip To Hell And Back hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Roundtrip To Hell And Back?

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 49 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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