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Demons With Ryu · Emmure

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove K -- Chorus
0 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART Q
PART Q
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
10 groovesKCFQB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demons With Ryu on drums

110 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-51, hi-hat through bars 52-70, silence through bars 71-72, snare through bars 73-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-110.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45 and 47-49, and 5 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxx-xxx---------|
Demons With Ryu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 22, 39, 44, 46, 50, 52 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-69 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-82 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Demons With Ryu?

185 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 With Ryu hard to play on drums?

61 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 With Ryu?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 22, 39, 44, 46, 50, 52 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED