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Demon Prince · Kreator

EXERCISE 20 OF 79
Groove L
73 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART E
PART M
PART M
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AG
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesRZJFM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demon Prince on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
91/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-37, ride through bars 38-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-62, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-17, 71-73 and 114-120, and 1 more place -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    114
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x---|
Demon Prince -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-18 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-22 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Demon Prince?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Prince hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Demon Prince?

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED