Dead Inside · Chimaira

106 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-20 and 31-36 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DEAD INSIDE · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 22, 37, 38, 42, 47 and 6 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

106 bars across 15 sections: 70 keep time, 12 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART V
PART P
PART I
OUTRO
11 groovesEBAFIC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead Inside?

150 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 Dead Inside hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dead Inside?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 21, 22, 37, 38, 42, 47 and 6 more.

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