Inner Alchemy · Gorod

250 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 68-74, and 3 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
INNER ALCHEMY · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 105 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 7-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

250 bars across 19 sections: 109 keep time, 111 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-40.

PART D
PART S
CHORUS
PART S
PART AR
PART AT
PART AT
PART S
CHORUS 2
13 groovesXSATARBU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Inner Alchemy?

150 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Inner Alchemy hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 28 sittings, about 26 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 Inner Alchemy?

29 fills to learn, played 111 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 105 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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