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The Enemy Within · Rush

EXERCISE 12 OF 65
Groove L
101 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART J
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Enemy Within on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-52, hi-hat through bars 53-68 and ride through bars 69-88, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
RD |--x---x---xx--x-|--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-------x--x--x-|
The Enemy Within -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- O, U -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part U and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 27-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-56 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-69 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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