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Demons · Avenged Sevenfold

EXERCISE 1 OF 86
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART Y
CHORUS 5
PART B
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
PART AG
OUTRO
11 groovesFWAGAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 13
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demons on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
283
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-39, ride through bars 40-42, snare through bars 43-47 and ride through bars 48-51, and 36 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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, T -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-24 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-90 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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