A Decade Under The Influence but its actually correct · Taking Back Sunday

150 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

55 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

150

LENGTH

3:51

DIFFICULTY

55/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36 and toms through bars 37-52, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23 and 37-51 -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
BD |x-------x-------|

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 52, 60, 65, 66, 67 and 11 more.

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C, T -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Bars 26-73 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 36-126 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
7. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Bars 73-86 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.