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Devil Take the Hindmost. · Allan Holdsworth

Devil Take the Hindmost. · Allan Holdsworth
EXERCISE 1 OF 120
Groove AF -- Part AF
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PART C
PART D
PART AF
PART AG
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AX
CHORUS 3
12 groovesAWAGAXDAF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
JOIN · 21
LINK · 17
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devil Take the Hindmost. on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-13, snare through bars 14-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22 and toms through bars 23-24, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Devil Take the Hindmost. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 92 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 -- AF, AW -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-118 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-20 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part AB and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part AF -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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