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Inhale The Grief · Boundaries

EXERCISE 11 OF 65
Groove B
52 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Inhale The Grief on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
179 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-12, snare through bars 13-44, silence through bars 45-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-49, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Inhale The Grief -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- O -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, AQ -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 12-50 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-45 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-72 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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