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Demons Gate · Candlemass

EXERCISE 23 OF 89
Groove M (a two-bar phrase)
184 / 291 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demons Gate on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
291
LENGTH
17:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-154, ride through bars 155-170 and hi-hat through bars 171-291.

The beat

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.

    32
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|
Demons Gate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, P -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-63 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-76 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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