A Certain Shade Of Green · Incubus

90 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

123 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

90

LENGTH

2:54

DIFFICULTY

72/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-74, toms through bars 75-80, hi-hat through bars 81-87 and toms through bars 88-90.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-28 and 38-52 -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o---o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x-gg----x-x-|----xg------xx-x|
BD |x-------x-xx-x--|x-----xxx-xx----|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through Part K and the Chorus 4 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 4 and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.