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dying on the inside · Nessa Barrett

dying on the inside · Nessa Barrett
EXERCISE 4 OF 11
Join Chorus to Break (bars 31-33)
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0 / 11 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS1S7S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play dying on the inside on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-82, silence through bars 83-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-104.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
dying on the inside -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 31-36 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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