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The Devil Went Down To Georgia · Charlie Daniels Band

The Devil Went Down To Georgia · Charlie Daniels Band
EXERCISE 21 OF 39
Join Part G to Part J (bars 104-106)
196 / 237 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART J
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART G
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Devil Went Down To Georgia on drums

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.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
268 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
237
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-57, hi-hat through bars 58-77, snare through bars 78-97 and ride through bars 98-105, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |g-g-x-g-g-g-x-g-|
BD |----g-------g---|
The Devil Went Down To Georgia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-148 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-84 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 94-106 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 102-148 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 145-179 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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