Aspiration · After The Burial

164 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

136 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

164

LENGTH

4:49

DIFFICULTY

61/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-31, hi-hat through bars 32-56, snare through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-83 and toms through bars 84-100, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 65-71, and 2 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x-------xx|

8 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 24, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 57 more.

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF, AJ -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 40-65 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Through Part D and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.