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Devil Dogs · Sabaton

EXERCISE 1 OF 70
Groove H -- Part H
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PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Z
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJCHZAH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devil Dogs on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-20 and snare through bars 21-22, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15 and 33-40 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Devil Dogs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 18, 19 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-29 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-41 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-60 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Devil Dogs?

150 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 Devil Dogs hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Devil Dogs?

18 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 18, 19 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED