96 Quite Bitter Beings · CKY (Camp Kill Yourself)

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

100 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

88

LENGTH

3:22

DIFFICULTY

69/100

ride through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56, snare through bars 57-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-88.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 5 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15               16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-xx|X-x-x-g-x-g-x-X-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|x-------x-x-----|

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 32, 38, 47 and 8 more.

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
5. Through Part L and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
7. Through Part L and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.