A Moment Of Clarity · Death

223 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

223

LENGTH

7:26

DIFFICULTY

86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48, ride through bars 49-52, hi-hat through bars 53-56 and ride through bars 57-71, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-66, 68-70 and 152-182 -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |------------------------x--x--x-----------------|
SD |------------------x-----------------------------|
T2 |---x-----------x--------------------------------|
FT |x-----x-----x-----------------------x--x--x-----|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x-xx-xx-xx--|

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 29, 30, 71, 91, 99, 119 and 6 more.

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
7. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
9. and 15 more sittings after that.