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War Inside My Head · Suicidal Tendencies

EXERCISE 18 OF 38
8-bar fill at bar 107
133 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesELIBAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play War Inside My Head on drums

166 bars at 201 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
201 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-22, snare through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-73, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-39, and 9 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|------x---------|
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x---x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x---x---x-----|
War Inside My Head -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 32, 64, 65, 107, 108, 109 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-48 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 114-123 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is War Inside My Head?

201 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 War Inside My Head hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 War Inside My Head?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 32, 64, 65, 107, 108, 109 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED