Demons · Avenged Sevenfold

283 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 6:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
283
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 34-39, and 7 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
DEMONS · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 25, 33, 40, 41, 42 and 30 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 40-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

283 bars across 25 sections: 181 keep time, 36 are fills and 32 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-67.

CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART B
PART AG
OUTRO
11 groovesFWAGAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Demons?

184 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 Demons hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

283 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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 Demons?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 25, 33, 40, 41, 42 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 283 BARS ANALYSED
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