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Insomnia · Periphery

EXERCISE 8 OF 69
Groove AN (a two-bar phrase)
26 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AI, PART AP
PART B
PART O
PART B
PART AD
PART AI
PART AP
PART S8
PART J
PART AI
PART AP
OUTRO
12 groovesBJBAIS8AD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Insomnia on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-65, silence through bars 66-72, hi-hat through bars 73-78, toms through bars 79-80 and snare through bars 81-100, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 128-129, 132-133 and 144-145, and 3 more places -- 8.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    128                                  129
    1...........2...........3........... 1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------x-----------------|------------------x-----------------|
BD |x--x-----x-----x-----------x--x-----|x--x--x--x-----x-----x--x--------x--|
Insomnia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 13, 42, 46, 48, 56 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- BJ -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AN (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Insomnia?

150 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 Insomnia hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Insomnia?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 13, 42, 46, 48, 56 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED