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Imposed Corporeal Inhabitation · Defeated Sanity

EXERCISE 14 OF 57
Join Part M to Part O (bars 17-19)
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CHORUS
PART M
PART O
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAOWAFAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Imposed Corporeal Inhabitation on drums

103 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:21
DIFFICULTY
97/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-9, toms through bars 10-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21 and snare through bars 22-25, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 65, and 3 more places -- 5.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1.......2.......3.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x-------|
SD |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Imposed Corporeal Inhabitation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-19 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-80 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Imposed Corporeal Inhabitation?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Imposed Corporeal Inhabitation hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 21 sittings, about 23 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 Imposed Corporeal Inhabitation?

11 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED