Blood Freak · Necrophagia

123 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 5:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

123

LENGTH

5:44

DIFFICULTY

53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-38, hi-hat through bars 39-50, snare through bars 51-52 and kick and crashes through bars 53-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-37, 39 and 41-45, and 5 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33                                   34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a9e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--o--|------------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----|x--x-xxx-x--|
BD |x--x-----x--x--x-----x--x--x-----x--|x-----------|

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 50 and 72.

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.