A Touch Of Evil · Judas Priest

139 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 5:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-25 and 39-41, and 3 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
A TOUCH OF EVIL · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 37, 67, 84, 92 and 139.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 15 sections: 103 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-25.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART Q
PART V
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBFQDS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Touch Of Evil?

96 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 A Touch Of Evil hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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 A Touch Of Evil?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 37, 67, 84, 92 and 139.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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