Arue · Bump Of Chicken

192 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

186 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

192

LENGTH

4:08

DIFFICULTY

57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-39, hi-hat through bars 40-57 and ride through bars 58-65, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 46 more places -- 25.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 22 more.

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Bars 42-112 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Bars 65-116 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.