Aberdeen · Cage The Elephant

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

102 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

81

LENGTH

3:11

DIFFICULTY

50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-47, snare through bars 48-56, hi-hat through bars 57-59, snare through bars 60-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-81.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 21-23 and 25, and 4 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 27, 28, 40 and 8 more.

It cuts the song into 27 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 57-74 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through Part M and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.