Apparitions · Matthew Good Band

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

76 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

74

LENGTH

3:54

DIFFICULTY

56/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-13, ride through bars 14-27, hi-hat through bars 28-49 and ride through bars 50-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-13, 37-49 and 53-55 -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-xx----x|

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 15, 19, 24, 26, 27, 59 and 3 more.

It cuts the song into 26 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 53-71 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.