Explosions in my head · Demons Inside

189 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-98 and 107-122 -- 17.2% 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
EXPLOSIONS IN MY HEAD · BAR 84
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 17, 18, 20 and 20 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 17 sections: 123 keep time, 26 are fills, 18 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 84-98.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART P
PART P
PART L
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEPKHL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Explosions in my head?

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 Explosions in my head hard to play on drums?

61 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Explosions in my head?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 17, 18, 20 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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