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For My Demons · Katatonia

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART U
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesBFS8S1UFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For My Demons on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-95, snare through bars 96-97, silence through bars 98-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-123.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 15 more places -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|
For My Demons -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 32, 36, 38 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- B, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is For My Demons?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 For My Demons hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 For My Demons?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 32, 36, 38 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED