Born a Swine · Macerate

160 bars at 305 BPM -- fast, and 2:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

305 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

160

LENGTH

2:06

DIFFICULTY

90/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-6, silence through bars 7-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-22 and ride through bars 23-24, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35, 37-40 and 43-45, and 5 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

25 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 70 more.

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- X -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
4. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 4-116 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 4-19 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through Part I and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part K and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
9. and 9 more sittings after that.