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To Hell And Back · Sabaton

EXERCISE 14 OF 44
Fill at bar 29, 51, 55 and 97
67 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
VERSE
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
PART Q
OUTRO
VERSE 4
8 groovesDKGVQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Hell And Back on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-71, ride through bars 72-89, kick and crashes through bars 90-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 38-40, and 5 more places -- 23.8% 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 |xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
To Hell And Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 36 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-26 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-26 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-38 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 34-60 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Verse 3 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is To Hell And Back?

120 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?

62 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 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 To Hell And Back?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 22, 23, 24, 25, 29, 36 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED