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Identity Crisis · Napalm Death

EXERCISE 2 OF 29
Groove H -- Outro 2
15 / 62 BARS COVERED
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PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART H
PART I
PART A
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHEAIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Identity Crisis on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
89/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-28, toms through bars 29-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-48, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 17-19, and 2 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x---x-----x-x---x-|
Identity Crisis -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 14, 16, 26, 28, 44 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-36 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-62 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Identity Crisis?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Identity Crisis hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 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 Identity Crisis?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 14, 16, 26, 28, 44 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED