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Insanity · Ale & Gabbo

EXERCISE 23 OF 33
Fill at bar 52 (a small one)
49 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART U
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK 4
9 groovesEKZUS11+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Insanity on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-21 and ride through bars 22-32, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 22-23, and 2 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
Insanity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 39, 52, 54 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z, J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-40 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-49 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Break 3 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Insanity?

100 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 Insanity hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 99 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 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 Insanity?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 39, 52, 54 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED