Devilock · Misfits

60 bars at 183 BPM -- fast, and 1:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:19
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 18-33 and 36-48 -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 183 BPM
DEVILOCK · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 34, 35, 57, 58 and 59.

LOOP · 183 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 183 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 183 BPM
BARS 57-59 · LANDS ON BAR 60 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 2 sections: 47 keep time, 6 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Devilock?

183 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 Devilock hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Devilock?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 34, 35, 57, 58 and 59.

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