Bad Exchanges · Showing Teeth

74 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

110 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

74

LENGTH

2:39

DIFFICULTY

92/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, snare through bars 19-26, toms through bars 27-34, ride through bars 35-39, hi-hat through bars 40-43 and snare through bars 44-47, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8, 12 and 59-60, and 1 more place -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    59                               60
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---|x-------x---x---x---x---x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x---x-------x-------x---|x---x-------x-------x---x-----xx|

7 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 6, 10, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 42 more.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- F, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 39 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.