ディア・ワンダラー · The Band Apart

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

85 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

81

LENGTH

3:49

DIFFICULTY

59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29, ride through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-11 and 13-17, and 1 more place -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 26, 28, 30 and 18 more.

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- A, H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Through the Verse and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
5. Bars 29-41 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
6. Bars 37-58 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through the Verse 2 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.