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Insane · Black Gryph0n, Baasik

Insane · Black Gryph0n, Baasik
EXERCISE 9 OF 15
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 23-25)
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0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
BREAK
OUTRO
8 groovesEBDS1S2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Insane on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
24/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-36, silence through bars 37-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-62.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 17 and 29-36 -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Insane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B, E, D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Insane?

104 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 Insane hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED