Blind Spell · Shaman

155 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

145 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

155

LENGTH

4:17

DIFFICULTY

70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-58, ride through bars 59-79, hi-hat through bars 80-104, ride through bars 105-112, hi-hat through bars 113-120 and ride through bars 121-155.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 59-79, 121-141 and 143-147, and 1 more place -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 14, 16, 24, 43, 80 and 6 more.

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- G, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 50-80 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Through Part G and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.