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Demon Fire · AC/DC

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
3 groovesDBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demon Fire on drums

139 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-104, snare through bars 105-106, hi-hat through bars 107-132, snare through bars 133-134 and kick and crashes through bars 135-139.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-34, 39-70 and 75-104, and 1 more place -- 77.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    12
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Demon Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 134.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 33-111 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 108-135 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Demon Fire?

160 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 Demon Fire hard to play on drums?

61 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Demon Fire?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED