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Gates Of Steel · Devo

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gates Of Steel on drums

135 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-62, toms through bars 63-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-135.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-25 and 27-33, and 6 more places -- 80.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 70, 80, 116, 133 and 134.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 13 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gates Of Steel?

158 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 Gates Of Steel hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 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 Gates Of Steel?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 70, 80, 116, 133 and 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED