The Hell Song · Sum 41

133 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 30-31, and 7 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 173 BPM
THE HELL SONG · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 28, 32, 36 and 11 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 12 sections: 97 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-115.

PART A
PART H
PART H
PART R
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDHRAGU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hell Song?

173 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 The Hell Song hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Hell Song?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 28, 32, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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