My Demons · Starset

170 bars at 173 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-30, 35-37 and 65-67, and 12 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 173 BPM
MY DEMONS · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 22, 60, 68, 72, 76 and 14 more.

LOOP · 173 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 173 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 9 sections: 38 keep time, 20 are fills, 61 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 43-59.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGS7JBR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Demons?

173 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 My Demons 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 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 My Demons?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 22, 60, 68, 72, 76 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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