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Devils Never Cry HR/HM Arrange · Devil May Cry

EXERCISE 5 OF 40
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
64 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCNFAK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devils Never Cry HR/HM Arrange on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-112 and snare through bars 113-121.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 25-31, and 10 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----------x-----------------|
Devils Never Cry HR/HM Arrange -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-36 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-50 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-60 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Devils Never Cry HR/HM Arrange?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Devils Never Cry HR/HM Arrange hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Devils Never Cry HR/HM Arrange?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED