In The Cage · Genesis

181 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 109 BPM, 8:13 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
8:13
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-36 and 38-45 -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 109 BPM
IN THE CAGE · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 25, 37, 46, 58, 62, 67 and 40 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time, 46 are fills and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-36.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART J
PART P
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
10 groovesZS10EPBG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Cage?

109 BPM, in 6/4, 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 In The Cage hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 8:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 In The Cage?

9 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 25, 37, 46, 58, 62, 67 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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