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DEVIL · Shinedown

EXERCISE 8 OF 23
Groove F
73 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGS8JS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play DEVIL on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 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
96
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-56, snare through bars 57-64 and silence through bars 65-72, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 14 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    30
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x---------x-|
BD |x---x-----x-----x-------|
DEVIL -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 48, 76 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-49 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 45-75 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is DEVIL?

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 hard to play on drums?

64 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in DEVIL?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 48, 76 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED