Intrinsic · After Forever

184 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 8:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
8:59
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 59 and 61, and 18 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
INTRINSIC · BAR 59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 44 and 19 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 18 sections: 100 keep time, 25 are fills, 23 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-20.

PART C
PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AD
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
13 groovesPUADAFB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Intrinsic?

83 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Intrinsic hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 8:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 14 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 Intrinsic?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 44 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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