46 And 2 · Tool

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

80 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

123

LENGTH

5:59

DIFFICULTY

74/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-22, ride through bars 23-30 and toms through bars 31-38, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 41-45 and 63-66 -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x--------------x--------------------------------|
HH |------o-----------------o--o--o--o--o--o--o-----|
SD |------------x--------------------x--------x-----|
BD |x-----x--------x-----x--x-----x--------x--------|
HF |------------x-----------------------------------|

14 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 7, 13, 38, 47, 48, 49 and 20 more.

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 14-32 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 27-42 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through Part Q and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Through Part Q and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 11 more sittings after that.