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Inferna · Orbit Culture

EXERCISE 26 OF 48
Fill at bar 117 (a small one)
184 / 254 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S5
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART Z
OUTRO
9 groovesGTWHZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Inferna on drums

254 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 6:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-9, snare through bars 10-40, toms through bars 41-42 and silence through bars 43-45, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 26-32 and 34-36, and 29 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-------------------x---------------x-----------|
Inferna -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G, W -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-71 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-86 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 101-215 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Inferna?

165 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 Inferna hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Inferna?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED