Internal Torment II · Paradise Lost

207 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 95-97 and 99-101, and 7 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
INTERNAL TORMENT II · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 33 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

249 bars across 23 sections: 143 keep time, 41 are fills, 36 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-104.

PART E
PART V
PART X
PART AT
PART BH
PART BO
PART BR
18 groovesUVBHARAT+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Internal Torment II?

132 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 Internal Torment II hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

207 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 28 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 Internal Torment II?

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 207 BARS ANALYSED
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