Animals as Leaders - The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing · Animals as Leaders

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

100 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

77

LENGTH

4:50

DIFFICULTY

77/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, ride through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24 and snare through bars 25-26, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-44 -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37                               38
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--------------------------------|----------------x-----x-----x---|
RD |x---------------x---------------|x-------------------------------|
SD |--g-----x---------g-----x-------|--g-----x---------g-x---g-x-----|
BD |----x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-|----x-------x-x-x-----x-----x---|

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16 and 15 more.

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- X -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part F and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.