Surrounded from the inside · Internal Bleeding

186 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-47, 51-55 and 79-81, and 6 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
SURROUNDED FROM THE INSIDE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14 and 41 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 3-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 22 sections: 88 keep time, 47 are fills, 27 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-117.

PART D
PART M
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART AM
PART M
11 groovesSDMAVAM+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Surrounded from the inside?

160 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 Surrounded from the inside hard to play on drums?

56 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Surrounded from the inside?

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 14 and 41 more.

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