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Devilock · Misfits

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove A -- Outro
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devilock on drums

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

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:19
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-49, snare through bars 50-52 and kick and crashes through bars 53-60.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED