Who is Insane? · Demons inside

141 bars at 213 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
213 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 19 more places -- 47% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 213 BPM
WHO IS INSANE? · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 28, 29, 53, 60, 61, 68 and 11 more.

LOOP · 213 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 213 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 213 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 213 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 16 sections: 93 keep time, 17 are fills, 12 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-52.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART S8
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
9 groovesDFAS8S+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Who is Insane??

213 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 Who is Insane? hard to play on drums?

59 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Who is Insane??

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 28, 29, 53, 60, 61, 68 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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