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In The Cage · Genesis

EXERCISE 17 OF 52
Join Part E to Part J (bars 46-48)
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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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Cage on drums

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.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
8:13
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-58, ride through bars 59-83, hi-hat through bars 84-85 and ride through bars 86-100, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-xxx-x-xxx-x-xxx-|
T1 |----------x-----------x-|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|
HF |--x-----x-----x-----x---|
In The Cage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-147 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-68 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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