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Demon Cleaner · Kyuss

EXERCISE 23 OF 45
Join Chorus to Part L (bars 72-74)
122 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART L
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demon Cleaner on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-97, snare through bars 98-124 and toms through bars 125-133.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------f---|
T2 |-x-------x-----x|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|
BD |x--x---x---x-x--|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|
Demon Cleaner -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-93 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 92-98 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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