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EXERCISE 42 OF 55
Groove X
101 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART V
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBDMVS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Insane on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, ride through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40, ride through bars 41-45 and silence through bars 46-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-20 and 29-31, and 4 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-85 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-70 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-73 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Insane?

140 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?

56 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Insane?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 22, 24, 26, 28, 32 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED