Dig · Incubus

161 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42, 44 and 46, and 22 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
DIG · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 39, 40, 87, 88, 108, 109 and 6 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 87-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 108-112 · LANDS ON BAR 113 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 11 sections: 129 keep time, 12 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-81.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART N
PART F
PART X
10 groovesCIXFN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dig?

155 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 Dig hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Dig?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 39, 40, 87, 88, 108, 109 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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