Between Angels And Insects · Papa Roach

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

94 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

84

LENGTH

3:34

DIFFICULTY

56/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-18, toms through bars 19-30, ride through bars 31-38, toms through bars 39-46 and ride through bars 47-54, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 2 more places -- 20.3% 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
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |x---------------|
FT |-x--x--x----x--x|
BD |--xx-x--x-x--x--|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 30, 46, 58, 62, 70, 75 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 32 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 45-63 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 55-67 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Bars 65-80 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.