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Devastate · Born Of Osiris

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove I -- Part I
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PART I
PART G
PART I
PART Z
PART AG
PART Z
PART AG
OUTRO
13 groovesDZIAGAV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devastate on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-29, snare through bars 30-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-46, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24 and 47-56 -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |--------x---------------x---------------x---------------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---x-----------x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x---|
Devastate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 11, 27, 29, 37 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-28 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Devastate?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Devastate hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 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 Devastate?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 11, 27, 29, 37 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED