Bone Machine · Pixies

86 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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

116 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

86

LENGTH

2:55

DIFFICULTY

54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-62, ride through bars 63-67, silence through bars 68-69 and ride through bars 70-77, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 4 and 6, and 19 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 38, 39, 40 and 6 more.

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
4. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Bars 38-45 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through Part L and Part S7 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.