Devil's Child · AndrewA

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 40-47 and 73-88 -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DEVIL'S CHILD · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 87 keep time and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCEDGB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Devil's Child?

120 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's Child hard to play on drums?

50 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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