The Devil Went Down To Georgia · Charlie Daniels Band

237 bars at 268 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockCountry / Folk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
268 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-32 and 34-48, and 7 more places -- 40.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 268 BPM
THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 104, 105, 147, 149, 153, 155 and 8 more.

LOOP · 268 BPM
BARS 104-105 · LANDS ON BAR 106 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 268 BPM
BAR 147 · LANDS ON BAR 148 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 268 BPM
BAR 149 · LANDS ON BAR 150 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 268 BPM
BARS 155-157 · LANDS ON BAR 158 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

237 bars across 15 sections: 175 keep time, 14 are fills, 27 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-56.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 4
PART D
PART B
7 groovesEBDJG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Devil Went Down To Georgia?

268 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 The Devil Went Down To Georgia hard to play on drums?

46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

237 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 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 The Devil Went Down To Georgia?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 104, 105, 147, 149, 153, 155 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 237 BARS ANALYSED
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