In the Cage Medley: In the Cage/The Cinema Show/The Colony of Slippermen · Genesis

523 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 18:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
523
LENGTH
18:23
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-24 and 31-41 -- 6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
IN THE CAGE MEDLEY: IN THE CAGE/THE CINEMA SHOW/THE COLONY OF SLIPPERMEN · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

53 fills to learn, played 100 times: bars 50, 68, 81, 109, 111, 117 and 94 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 109 · LANDS ON BAR 110

49 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

523 bars across 56 sections: 324 keep time, 100 are fills, 24 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-108.

PART K
50 groovesBKEWLCA+45Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In the Cage Medley: In the Cage/The Cinema Show/The Colony of Slippermen?

108 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 In the Cage Medley: In the Cage/The Cinema Show/The Colony of Slippermen hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

523 bars, about 18:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 242 exercises over 72 sittings, about 27 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 Medley: In the Cage/The Cinema Show/The Colony of Slippermen?

53 fills to learn, played 100 times: bars 50, 68, 81, 109, 111, 117 and 94 more.

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