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Demondawn · Bewitched

EXERCISE 9 OF 58
Groove M -- Chorus
33 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART A
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMGABAK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demondawn on drums

148 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32 and ride through bars 33-52, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 21 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x--x--x-|
Demondawn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- G -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-41 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-61 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-74 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Demondawn?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Demondawn hard to play on drums?

63 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Demondawn?

14 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED