Devil In Jersey City · Coheed And Cambria

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 11-12, and 5 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
DEVIL IN JERSEY CITY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 19, 20, 26, 31, 32, 36 and 11 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 8 sections: 72 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-14.

PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJCPBS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Devil In Jersey City?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 In Jersey City hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 In Jersey City?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 19, 20, 26, 31, 32, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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