dying on the inside · Nessa Barrett

104 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-32, 34-35 and 39-56, and 5 more places -- 78.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DYING ON THE INSIDE · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 8 sections: 78 keep time and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-72.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS1S7S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is dying on the inside?

125 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 dying on the inside hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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