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Dead Inside · Chimaira

EXERCISE 5 OF 60
Groove B -- Part B
34 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dead Inside on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
82/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30 and snare through bars 31-38, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    16
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |x-ggggx-x-g-g-g-g-x-g-g-gggggggg|
BD |x-----------x-------------------|
HF |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Dead Inside -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, AF -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-43 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-55 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Bars 46-57 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED