211 & FFWAS · PeelingFlesh

183 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

160 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

183

LENGTH

4:35

DIFFICULTY

68/100

toms through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-20, hi-hat through bars 21-23, snare through bars 24-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and ride through bars 37-40, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 53-55 and 57-59, and 6 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|

13 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 18, 28, 36, 52, 78, 80 and 8 more.

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, BB -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Bars 28-41 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 40-46 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
8. Bars 48-53 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 13 more sittings after that.