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Speak of the Devil feat. Masato · survive said the prophet

EXERCISE 12 OF 77
Hold Groove C for 8 bars -- Part C (bars 3-10)
44 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AP
BREAK
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesSACEAAB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Speak of the Devil feat. Masato on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 3-9, snare through bars 10-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34, snare through bars 35-41 and toms through bars 42-43, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-33 and 99-105 -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31               32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-----x---------|----x-----------|
Speak of the Devil feat. Masato -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- O, S -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 11-36 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-45 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-60 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Speak of the Devil feat. Masato?

135 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 Speak of the Devil feat. Masato 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Speak of the Devil feat. Masato?

20 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED