18, 19 · Tricot

115 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

146 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

115

LENGTH

3:49

DIFFICULTY

67/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-26, ride through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-63, ride through bars 64-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-73, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-36, 39-40 and 82, and 2 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35                   36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
CC |x---------x---------|x---------x---------|
HH |--o-o-o-o---o-o-o-o-|--o-o-o-o---o-o-----|
SD |---x--x-x----x--x-x-|---x--x-x----x-x----|
T1 |--------------------|----------------xx--|
FT |--------------------|------------------xx|
BD |x-x--x----x-x--x----|x-x--x----x-x-------|

12 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 42 more.

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- V -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, AF -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
4. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
5. Through Part J and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part J and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through Part O and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
8. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
9. and 8 more sittings after that.