DDevil · System of a Down

85 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 1:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
1:45
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-21, 29 and 34, and 9 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 195 BPM
DDEVIL · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 37, 77 and 85.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 85
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 13 sections: 60 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesDEBAH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is DDevil?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is DDevil hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 1:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 14 sittings, about 22 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 DDevil?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 37, 77 and 85.

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