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Devil On My Shoulder · Billy Talent

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO 2
PART B
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devil On My Shoulder on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-21, snare through bars 22-33, hi-hat through bars 34-46 and snare through bars 47-54, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x--x----x---|
BD |xxxx----xx-x----|xxxx----x-x--x--|
Devil On My Shoulder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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, K -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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