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Demand · Stratovarius

EXERCISE 9 OF 69
Fill at bar 16 (a small one)
126 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
8 groovesFLGACR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demand on drums

204 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 3:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-42 and ride through bars 43-50, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 14 and 17-19, and 18 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Demand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 38, 42, 49 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- F, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-50 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-71 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Demand?

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

Is Demand hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Demand?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 38, 42, 49 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED