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Internal Torment II · Paradise Lost

EXERCISE 25 OF 108
Run N1 · Part N (bars 19-30)
92 / 249 BARS COVERED
0 / 108 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART E
PART N
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 12
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Internal Torment II on drums

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.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
207
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
92/100

toms through bars 1-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, ride through bars 31-63, snare through bars 64-67 and ride through bars 68-71, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------X-----------------------X-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Internal Torment II -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 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 -- U -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-26 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part V and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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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