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Insomnia · Haken

EXERCISE 1 OF 86
Groove L
0 / 311 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT
PART S1
PART B
PART M
CHORUS
PART M
PART U
PART AK
PART AS
PART S17
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesOBMUY+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Insomnia on drums

311 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 192 BPM, 5:14 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
311
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-9, silence through bars 10-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16 and kick and crashes through bars 17-18, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 24 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e
CC |x-------------|
HH |----o---o---o-|
SD |------x-------|
BD |x---------x---|
Insomnia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 27, 30 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- L, O -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-55 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 133-177 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Insomnia?

192 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Insomnia hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

311 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Insomnia?

16 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 16, 27, 30 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 311 BARS ANALYSED