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The Devil Went Down To Georgia · Steve Ouimette

EXERCISE 10 OF 69
Groove D
278 / 449 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCHOS15Q+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Devil Went Down To Georgia on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
280 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
449
LENGTH
6:25
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-60, ride through bars 61-74, snare through bars 75-76 and ride through bars 77-84, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Devil Went Down To Georgia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-77 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-109 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 108-184 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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