The Enemy Inside · marianov

223 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 6:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 123-125, and 1 more place -- 5.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 144 BPM
THE ENEMY INSIDE · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 101 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 95 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 9-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 19 sections: 91 keep time, 101 are fills, 8 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-75.

PART B
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AI
PART AV
PART BG
PART BP
OUTRO
16 groovesKAIBPBGAS+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Enemy Inside?

144 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 The Enemy Inside hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 6:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 89 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 The Enemy Inside?

26 fills to learn, played 101 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 95 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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