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Straight To Hell · Rage

EXERCISE 38 OF 75
Run R1 · Part R (bars 103-106)
157 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
10 groovesOCJHV+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Straight To Hell on drums

239 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-27, snare through bars 28-43, hi-hat through bars 44-84 and toms through bars 85-86, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 87-91, 95-99 and 107-113, and 5 more places -- 18.3% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Straight To Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 19, 27, 35, 43, 59 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- O, C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 60-72 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-90 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 103-127 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Straight To Hell?

208 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Straight To Hell hard to play on drums?

51 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?

239 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Straight To Hell?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 11, 19, 27, 35, 43, 59 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED