手をたたけ · Nico Touches The Walls

155 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

154 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

155

LENGTH

4:02

DIFFICULTY

68/100

hi-hat through bars 2-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-58 and kick and crashes through bars 59-60, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 43-49 and 51-57, and 5 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|------x---x---x-|

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 10, 25, 34, 41, 50, 58 and 19 more.

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Through Part E and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.