When Hell Freezes Over · Metallica

287 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 8:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
8:12
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 33, and 14 more places -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

34 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27 and 101 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 18 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 42-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

30 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

287 bars across 31 sections: 90 keep time, 107 are fills, 33 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-18.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART AU
PART BI
PART S28
18 groovesHKBIS28E+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is When Hell Freezes Over?

140 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 When Hell Freezes Over hard to play on drums?

47 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?

287 bars, about 8:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 91 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 When Hell Freezes Over?

34 fills to learn, played 107 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 24, 26, 27 and 101 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED
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