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Devil's Child · AndrewA

Devil's Child · AndrewA
EXERCISE 3 OF 23
Groove D -- Part D
56 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devil's Child on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-88 and snare through bars 89-104.

The beat

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.

    17
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |---o-----o-----o-----o--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Devil's Child -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-51 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-92 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED