Devil Take the Hindmost. · Allan Holdsworth

221 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 59-60 and 62-63, and 11 more places -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DEVIL TAKE THE HINDMOST. · BAR 62
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 11, 12, 32 and 49 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 32-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 22 sections: 125 keep time, 55 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 44-55.

PART C
PART D
PART AF
PART AG
CHORUS 2
PART AX
CHORUS 3
12 groovesAWAGAXDAF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Devil Take the Hindmost.?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Devil Take the Hindmost. hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 22 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Take the Hindmost.?

27 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 11, 12, 32 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED
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