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Waking The Demon · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 9 OF 61
Groove O -- Part O
46 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART O
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART S
OUTRO
9 groovesHVLSC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Waking The Demon on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
89/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, snare through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54 and snare through bars 55-62, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 23-29, and 3 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Waking The Demon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-54 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-72 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Waking The Demon?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Waking The Demon hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Waking The Demon?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED