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Demon Lover · Shocking Blue

EXERCISE 10 OF 23
Fill at bar 76 (a small one)
151 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demon Lover on drums

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

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
6:07
DIFFICULTY
47/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---o---|
SD |---xx-------x---|
Demon Lover -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 17-73 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 125-156 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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