Bleed Me An Ocean · Acid Bath

197 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

197

LENGTH

5:49

DIFFICULTY

54/100

ride through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-13, toms through bars 14-16, hi-hat through bars 17-45, toms through bars 46-48 and ride through bars 49-72, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78, 80 and 88, and 7 more places -- 5.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    94
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x----x--x--g-x|
BD |x---x-x-x---x-x-|

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 24, 32, 36 and 9 more.

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- AN, BS -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- BY -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Through Part B and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Through Part P and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 14 more sittings after that.