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Invisible Enemy · August Burns All The Tabs

EXERCISE 9 OF 26
26-bar fill at bar 7
33 / 138 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
CHORUS
PART S4
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesZS2S7BNS4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Invisible Enemy on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-20, toms through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-34 and ride through bars 35-38, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 100-101 and 104-105 -- 3.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    100
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x------x-x--x-|
Invisible Enemy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 78 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- BL -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- BN -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 -- 2 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 2 exercises, about 40 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-99 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Invisible Enemy?

145 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 Invisible Enemy hard to play on drums?

61 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 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Invisible Enemy?

5 fills to learn, played 84 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 78 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED