12 Gauge Autopsy · Peelingflesh

73 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

73

LENGTH

2:29

DIFFICULTY

68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, snare through bars 30-35, hi-hat through bars 36-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-49, snare through bars 50-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-57, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 18-20, and 1 more place -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                                                                2
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------x-------x-------x-------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|o---------------o---------------o-------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|------------------------------------x-------------------x-------|
BD |x--x-x--x-------x-------------------------------x--x-x--x-------|x---------------x---------------x---x---x---x---x---------------|

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 14, 16, 17, 25, 29, 30 and 10 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 25-36 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
8. Through Part S4 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.