My Instincts Are The Enemy · American Football

177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 18-24, and 4 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MY INSTINCTS ARE THE ENEMY · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 34, 35 and 12 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 33-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 9 sections: 129 keep time, 19 are fills and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-176.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBUS7FP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Instincts Are The Enemy?

140 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 My Instincts Are The Enemy hard to play on drums?

59 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 My Instincts Are The Enemy?

3 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 34, 35 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
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