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My Demons · Starset

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove G -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Demons on drums

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.

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
173 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-22, snare through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30, snare through bars 31-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-38, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |x-------x-------|
My Demons -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- G, I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-69 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 80-135 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 134-160 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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