Demons Gate · Candlemass

291 bars, 17:52, at 65 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
291
LENGTH
17:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 56 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 65 BPM
DEMONS GATE · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 30, 35, 51, 57, 67, 75 and 25 more.

LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 65 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

291 bars across 20 sections: 218 keep time, 31 are fills, 10 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-50.

CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART AF
PART C
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBPCTH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Demons Gate?

65 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Demons Gate hard to play on drums?

60 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

291 bars, about 17:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Demons Gate?

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 30, 35, 51, 57, 67, 75 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 291 BARS ANALYSED
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