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Evil To Cast Out Evil · Nile

EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART J
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART G
PART AE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJAEGY+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 12
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evil To Cast Out Evil on drums

244 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
99/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-22, toms through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-44, and 31 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13 and 54-55, and 10 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------g-------x-------g-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Evil To Cast Out Evil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 23, 24 and 57 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-53 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-25 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-61 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Evil To Cast Out Evil?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Evil To Cast Out Evil hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Evil To Cast Out Evil?

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 23, 24 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED