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Diva Satanica · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 12 OF 82
Groove E -- Part E
79 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
PART E
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART AC
PART AH
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesJNAEM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diva Satanica on drums

166 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, ride through bars 37-43, toms through bars 44-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-48, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-35 and 63-76, and 3 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 7, 15, 24, 36, 44, 47 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- J, M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 13-25 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-40 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Diva Satanica?

175 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 Diva Satanica hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 16 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 Diva Satanica?

19 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 7, 15, 24, 36, 44, 47 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED