Senseless Anxiety · At the Ninth Gate

228 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
228
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-67, 69-70 and 73-75, and 13 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SENSELESS ANXIETY · BAR 65
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 49, 61, 80 and 28 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 48-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

228 bars across 16 sections: 94 keep time, 38 are fills and 77 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

PART C
PART E
PART D
CHORUS
PART P
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKPELC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Senseless Anxiety?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Senseless Anxiety hard to play on drums?

53 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

228 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Senseless Anxiety?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 49, 61, 80 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 228 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other At the Ninth Gate drum parts

EVERY AT THE NINTH GATE CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →