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When Hell Freezes Over · Metallica

EXERCISE 12 OF 126
Groove I
82 / 287 BARS COVERED
0 / 126 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
PART K
PART E
PART AU
PART BI
PART S28
18 groovesHKBIS28E+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 34
LAND · 34
RUN · 4
JOIN · 19
LINK · 2
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When Hell Freezes Over on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
8:12
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, toms through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-27 and ride through bars 28-31, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
When Hell Freezes Over -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 91 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 -- E, K -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 25-37 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-53 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-72 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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