Beneath A Pale Sky · Fleshroad

240 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 6:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

110 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

240

LENGTH

6:43

DIFFICULTY

73/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-61, hi-hat through bars 62-109 and ride through bars 110-118, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-5 and 7, and 27 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |----ooooo-oo|
SD |---x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----|

26 fills to learn, played 108 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 102 more.

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AW -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 13-111 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 21-92 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part S -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
9. and 11 more sittings after that.