ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demigod on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 123 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 109
LENGTH: 3:34
DIFFICULTY: 93/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-60, snare through bars 61-64, ride through bars 65-86, toms through bars 87-89 and snare through bars 90-101, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 33-39 and 69-75 -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                                                                10
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------x-------x-------|
RD |------------------------x-------------------------------x-------|------------------------x---------------------------------------|
SD |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-------|
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-xx-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-------x-------|

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 22, 48, 50 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
Through Part G -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Bars 9-33 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Demigod?

123 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 Demigod hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Demigod?

17 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 22, 48, 50 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED