A Line In The Dust ft. Mat Welsh from While She Sleeps · Landmvrks

154 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

158 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

154

LENGTH

3:54

DIFFICULTY

49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-38, snare through bars 39-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 21, and 13 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x---------x-|

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 31 and 15 more.

It cuts the song into 48 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, D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Bars 7-20 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
5. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 25-34 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 31-47 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Bars 59-67 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.