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Devices · Dwellings

Devices · Dwellings
EXERCISE 19 OF 76
Groove K
58 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 5
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devices on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, silence through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-43 and snare through bars 44-46, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Devices -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- J -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-25 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-69 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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