“Ashes in the Air” and “Scars of the Flame” – Heartbreaking Slow Rock Performance · michael bennett

163 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 8:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO

92 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

163

LENGTH

8:29

DIFFICULTY

25/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-33, ride through bars 34-36, silence through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-50 and ride through bars 51-54, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 29-33, and 2 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 20, 28, 35, 40, 48, 55 and 10 more.

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B, M -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 13-64 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
4. Bars 51-67 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 65-90 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 89-128 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
7. Bars 121-143 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.