Devil On My Shoulder · Billy Talent

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-8, 30-33 and 87-89 -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
DEVIL ON MY SHOULDER · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 8, 21, 29, 31, 33 and 10 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 14 sections: 50 keep time, 16 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 72-77.

PART F
CHORUS
PART B
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART S
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHBFQU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Devil On My Shoulder?

95 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 On My Shoulder hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Devil On My Shoulder?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 8, 21, 29, 31, 33 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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