Devil's Island · Megadeth

200 bars, 10:35, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
10:35
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 41 and 43, and 6 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
DEVIL'S ISLAND · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 19 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 14 sections: 135 keep time, 25 are fills, 23 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-77.

PART K
PART K
PART Q
PART I
PART X
CHORUS
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesABKQAHAQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Devil's Island?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Devil's Island hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 10:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 20 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's Island?

15 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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