Песок · Horizon 8

161 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

186 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

161

LENGTH

3:28

DIFFICULTY

73/100

ride through bars 1-16, silence through bars 17-20, ride through bars 21-96, hi-hat through bars 97-128, ride through bars 129-136 and silence through bars 137-144, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8-16 and 36, and 5 more places -- 47% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
3. Bars 1-40 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
4. Bars 53-101 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. Through Part H and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.