Demon Lover · Shocking Blue

156 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 6:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
6:07
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 25-28 and 33-56, and 3 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 102 BPM
DEMON LOVER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 72, 76, 80, 84 and 102.

LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 102 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 10 sections: 140 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-56.

PART A
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Demon Lover?

102 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 Lover hard to play on drums?

47 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 6:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Demon Lover?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 72, 76, 80, 84 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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