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Caught In The Middle · Dio

EXERCISE 3 OF 32
Groove K -- Part K
78 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEKBS1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Caught In The Middle on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 3-138.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 35 more places -- 47.8% 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
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Caught In The Middle -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 36, 52, 60, 64, 90 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-42 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Caught In The Middle?

124 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 Caught In The Middle hard to play on drums?

50 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Caught In The Middle?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 36, 52, 60, 64, 90 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED