351 · State of Denial

89 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO

156 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

89

LENGTH

2:17

DIFFICULTY

61/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-34, silence through bars 35-37, snare through bars 38-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-65, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-15, 18-23 and 42-47, and 1 more place -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |x---x-g-x---x---|x-ggx-o-x-g-o---|
SD |--x-----x-x-----|--------x-x-----|
BD |x-----x-----x---|--x-x-------x---|

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 49 and 57.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
4. Bars 1-67 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 32-64 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Bars 61-89 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.