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Beelzebub · Shrine Of Malice

Beelzebub · Shrine Of Malice
EXERCISE 26 OF 76
2-bar fill at bar 28
54 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
BREAK 3
PART S13
PART BB
OUTRO
13 groovesEBJQAS13+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beelzebub on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-25, hi-hat through bars 26-32, snare through bars 33-57 and ride through bars 58-60, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 116-120 and 122-135 -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    116
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Beelzebub -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 17, 21, 23 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- BJ -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BK -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-18 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-27 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part Q -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beelzebub?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Beelzebub hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 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 Beelzebub?

22 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 6, 8, 12, 17, 21, 23 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED