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Surrounded from the inside · Internal Bleeding

Surrounded from the inside · Internal Bleeding
EXERCISE 16 OF 91
Hold Groove D for 8 bars -- Part D (bars 8-15)
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0 / 91 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Surrounded from the inside on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-5, snare through bars 6-22, ride through bars 23-29, snare through bars 30-40 and kick and crashes through bars 41-42, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Surrounded from the inside -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 8-31 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-50 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED