ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Daimonos on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 130 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 168
LENGTH: 5:10
DIFFICULTY: 100/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-39, ride through bars 40-49, snare through bars 50-52, ride through bars 53-66 and toms through bars 67-71, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-32, 152-157 and 160-166 -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25                                                               26
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|x------------------------------------------x---------x----------|
RD |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------f--x-x--x--x-x--x-------------------------------|
SD |----------------------------------------------------------------|x---------------------------------------------------------------|
T1 |----------------x----x-----x------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
T2 |----------------x----x-----x----x----------x--------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
FT |--------------------------------x----------x---------x----------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|

Daimonos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
Through Part S2 and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part J and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part A and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part S -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
and 13 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Daimonos?

130 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 Daimonos hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Daimonos?

19 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED