Between me and the Devil · Ghost Hounds

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 9 and 15, and 6 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BETWEEN ME AND THE DEVIL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 4, 10, 13, 14, 21 and 19 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 21-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

70 bars across 7 sections: 35 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-9.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCMSS6FFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Between me and the Devil?

90 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 Between me and the Devil hard to play on drums?

50 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Between me and the Devil?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 4, 10, 13, 14, 21 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED
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