Devices · Dwellings

171 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 10 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
DEVICES · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 34 and 41 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 15 sections: 85 keep time, 47 are fills, 16 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-48.

PART D
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AD
PART Z
PART AP
PART AV
OUTRO
11 groovesJAVZDAP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Devices?

198 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 Devices hard to play on drums?

51 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Devices?

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 32, 34 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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