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Between me and the Devil · Ghost Hounds

Between me and the Devil · Ghost Hounds
EXERCISE 21 OF 43
Fill at bar 31 (a small one)
40 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Between me and the Devil on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-31, ride through bars 32-36, snare through bars 37-44, silence through bars 45-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-63, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Between me and the Devil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C, E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-24 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part S and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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