Demons · Imagine Dragons

53 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-13, 30-44 and 46-53 -- 93.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
DEMONS · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 6 sections: 32 keep time, 1 is a fill and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-44.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCS3S1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Demons?

90 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 hard to play on drums?

35 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Demons?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 5.

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