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Demon Of The Fall · Opeth

EXERCISE 1 OF 57
Groove AA
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PART B
PART K
PART M
BREAK
PART S
CHORUS
PART AC
PART G
PART AI
BREAK 2
13 groovesS13UBGAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demon Of The Fall on drums

121 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 69 BPM, 8:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
8:53
DIFFICULTY
85/100

ride through bars 2-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-37, silence through bars 38-47, hi-hat through bars 48-55 and ride through bars 56-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-68, 71-72 and 77, and 1 more place -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    67
    1.......2.......3.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x-g-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Demon Of The Fall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 20 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 20-32 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Demon Of The Fall?

69 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Demon Of The Fall hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 8:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Of The Fall?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 20 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED