A NEW SUIT OF FLESH · finideaspsy

91 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

175 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

91

LENGTH

2:05

DIFFICULTY

100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-31, hi-hat through bars 32-47, toms through bars 48-49, snare through bars 50-65 and silence through bars 66-74, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 33-39, and 2 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1                                2
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------x---x---x-------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-----------------|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x----------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---x---x-------|

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 40, 48, 49 and 4 more.

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
4. Bars 29-61 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
5. Bars 64-82 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.