On The Inside · Bandwagon Sabotage

45 bars, 2:34, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
45
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 6 more places -- 54.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
ON THE INSIDE · BAR 7
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 36.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

45 bars across 3 sections: 38 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-35.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is On The Inside?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is On The Inside hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

45 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in On The Inside?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 4 and 36.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 45 BARS ANALYSED
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