Inner Assassins · Matt Garstka

197 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 117-124 and 129-132 -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
INNER ASSASSINS · BAR 117
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 34, 48, 58, 67, 68, 69 and 14 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 67-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 21 sections: 130 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-126.

COUNT-IN
PART H
PART M
PART O
PART AE
PART AR
PART BR
CHORUS
18 groovesCCBRS1OM+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Inner Assassins?

145 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 Inner Assassins hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 31 sittings, about 24 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 Assassins?

13 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 34, 48, 58, 67, 68, 69 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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