Ραντεβού Στη Φωτιά · Kill the Cat

171 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

212 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

171

LENGTH

3:14

DIFFICULTY

57/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, ride through bars 10-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, ride through bars 25-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-54, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 19 and 21, and 21 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|

9 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 34 more.

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 -- D, Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 8-66 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Bars 33-74 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 10-84 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
7. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
8. Through Part E and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.