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Devil In Jersey City · Coheed And Cambria

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove B -- Part B
0 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART C, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devil In Jersey City on drums

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.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-20 and snare through bars 21-23, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |-x--------------|
HH |---o-o-o-o-o-o-o|
SD |---x---x---x---x|
BD |-xx-xxx--xx-xxx-|
Devil In Jersey City -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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