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Caged in Rage · Dimebag Darrell

Caged in Rage · Dimebag Darrell
EXERCISE 14 OF 44
Fill at bar 19
53 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART L
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBTKLE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Caged in Rage on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and ride through bars 38-43, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 20-22, and 5 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
Caged in Rage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 19, 27, 29 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-23 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-41 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-64 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Caged in Rage?

106 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Caged in Rage hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Caged in Rage?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 19, 27, 29 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED