Finger Paintings Of The Insane · Acid Bath

190 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 6:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 150 and 153-165, and 1 more place -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
FINGER PAINTINGS OF THE INSANE · BAR 154
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 31 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

190 bars across 18 sections: 123 keep time, 38 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-92.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART B
PART AX
PART AW
PART T
15 groovesZTBFAX+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Finger Paintings Of The Insane?

115 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 Finger Paintings Of The Insane hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 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 Finger Paintings Of The Insane?

11 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 31 more.

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