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To Hell And Back · Blessthefall

EXERCISE 11 OF 29
Run D1 · Part D (bars 9-18)
75 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFGDHC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Hell And Back on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-10, toms through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-41, hi-hat through bars 42-51 and snare through bars 52-68, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 3 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x---|
BD |xxxx--xxxx--xxxx|
To Hell And Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 67, 92 and 93.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-19 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-36 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 39-51 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-72 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is To Hell And Back?

116 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 To Hell And Back hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 To Hell And Back?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 18, 67, 92 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED