BEAT YER ASS · D.

126 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

154 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

126

LENGTH

3:16

DIFFICULTY

86/100

ride through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, toms through bars 27-49, hi-hat through bars 50-58, toms through bars 59-92 and ride through bars 93-100, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 24 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
RD |------------------------------------------x--x--|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
T2 |------x-----------------------------------------|
FT |---------------x-----------------x--------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 10, 18, 26, 34, 42 and 12 more.

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 13-30 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 27-52 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 75-87 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Bars 90-94 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.