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80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare 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

96 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

80

LENGTH

3:20

DIFFICULTY

57/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-25, 27 and 45-52, and 1 more place -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x----x--x--x|xx--x---x---x---|
BD |x--x--x----x--x-|x--x--x--x-x-x-x|

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 26, 63, 64, 72, 77, 78 and 1 more.

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- E, A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
4. Bars 27-33 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 33-53 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 49-61 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through Part L and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.