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Demonic Depression · Volbeat

EXERCISE 23 OF 44
Fill at bar 65 (a small one)
112 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART Q
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBGQOS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demonic Depression on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, ride through bars 22-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-33, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-17 and 20-21, and 9 more places -- 35.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 49, 53 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 83-117 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Demonic Depression?

135 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 Demonic Depression hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Demonic Depression?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 49, 53 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED