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A Touch Of Evil · Judas Priest

EXERCISE 28 OF 40
Join Part Q to Part V (bars 91-93)
114 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART V
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Touch Of Evil on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-60, ride through bars 61-68 and silence through bars 69-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xx----x---|
A Touch Of Evil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B, F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-31 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-68 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-80 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 89-104 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 105-115 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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