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Devilcry · Crystal Lake

EXERCISE 34 OF 64
2-bar fill at bar 57
72 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART A
PART AB
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFRS11AI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devilcry on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-10, toms through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-21, silence through bars 22-23 and snare through bars 24-59, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 43-45, and 7 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|
Devilcry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 16, 28, 32 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-56 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-55 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Devilcry?

144 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Devilcry 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Devilcry?

18 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 11, 12, 16, 28, 32 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED