The Devil Beneath my Feet · Marilyn Manson

127 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 16-20 and 26-30, and 5 more places -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
THE DEVIL BENEATH MY FEET · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 92, 110 and 126.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 126 · LANDS ON BAR 127
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 16 sections: 105 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-91.

CHORUS 4
PART F
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
7 groovesBAFDE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Devil Beneath my Feet?

127 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 The Devil Beneath my Feet hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Devil Beneath my Feet?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 36, 92, 110 and 126.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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