Dear Insanity · Asking Alexandria

149 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 14 and 16, and 2 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
DEAR INSANITY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 13, 17, 27, 29, 31 and 17 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 16 sections: 103 keep time, 23 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-68.

CHORUS
PART J
PART D
PART N
PART R
PART N
PART W
PART AA
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBNRADD+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dear Insanity?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dear Insanity hard to play on drums?

56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Dear Insanity?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 13, 17, 27, 29, 31 and 17 more.

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