Bleed · Torena

91 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

114 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

91

LENGTH

3:12

DIFFICULTY

51/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-58 and snare through bars 59-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-57 and 59-64, and 2 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-----------|
HH |--------o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----------|

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 26, 30 and 13 more.

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- L, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through Part C and Part H -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
5. Bars 27-47 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.