Demon Cleaner · Kyuss

133 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 5:27 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 27-29 and 31-33, and 10 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
DEMON CLEANER · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 41, 61, 65, 73, 97 and 8 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 7 sections: 111 keep time and 14 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-40.

PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFOCGL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Demon Cleaner?

97 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 Demon Cleaner hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, 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 Demon Cleaner?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 41, 61, 65, 73, 97 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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