The Enemy Within · Rush

162 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-42, and 10 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
THE ENEMY WITHIN · BARS 33-34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 32, 44, 52 and 16 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 12 sections: 109 keep time, 22 are fills and 16 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-27.

PART G
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART U
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
6 groovesOUGJM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Enemy Within?

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 Within hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Within?

16 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 5, 7, 32, 44, 52 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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