The Devil Went Down To Georgia · Steve Ouimette

449 bars at 280 BPM -- fast, and 6:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
280 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
449
LENGTH
6:25
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 77-79 and 229-230, and 34 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 280 BPM
THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 39 more.

LOOP · 280 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 280 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 280 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 280 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

449 bars across 19 sections: 325 keep time, 46 are fills, 25 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 229-356.

PART H
PART O
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
10 groovesCHOS15Q+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Devil Went Down To Georgia?

280 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?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

449 bars, about 6:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 13 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?

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 449 BARS ANALYSED
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