At the End Of August · 36 Crazyfists

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

99 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

94

LENGTH

3:44

DIFFICULTY

62/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-18, toms through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-27 and ride through bars 28-29, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-22, 41-44 and 87-90 -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |-------x--------|
FT |---------x----xx|
BD |x--x-x-----x-xx-|

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 15 more.

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
5. Bars 3-22 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
8. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.