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I, The Devourer · Disembodied Tyrant/Synestia

I, The Devourer · Disembodied Tyrant/Synestia
EXERCISE 13 OF 80
Fill at bar 13 (a small one)
28 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE BREAK
COUNT-IN
BREAK
PART D
BREAK 3
PART Y
CHORUS
PART AM
PART AW
PART BK
19 groovesS11YAMBKD+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I, The Devourer on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:53
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-33 and ride through bars 34-45, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63-65, 69 and 71-73, and 2 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
I, The Devourer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 16, 20, 22, 24, 37 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 27-33 -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-46 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I, The Devourer?

110 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 I, The Devourer hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 I, The Devourer?

18 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 16, 20, 22, 24, 37 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED