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demons B · Josiah Queen

demons B · Josiah Queen
EXERCISE 5 OF 11
Run C1 · Part C (bars 28-39)
49 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART C
BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDS1CS2S7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play demons B on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat and kick.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-39, silence through bars 40-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68, silence through bars 69-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-68, 83-91 and 93-95, and 1 more place -- 64.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 92, 96 and 98.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is demons B?

127 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 demons B hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

How many fills are in demons B?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 92, 96 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED