Inhale The Grief · Boundaries

135 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33, and 8 more places -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 179 BPM
INHALE THE GRIEF · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 4, 18, 19, 36, 49 and 26 more.

LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 179 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 179 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 13 sections: 66 keep time, 32 are fills, 26 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-56.

CHORUS
PART I
PART H
PART I
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAIHOAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Inhale The Grief?

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

Is Inhale The Grief hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Inhale The Grief?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 2, 4, 18, 19, 36, 49 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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