Bottomfeeder · Blessthefall

194 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

220 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

194

LENGTH

3:31

DIFFICULTY

60/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, snare through bars 22-25, toms through bars 26-50 and snare through bars 51-67, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 62-64, 66-68 and 70-72, and 13 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62                               63
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x---------------|--------x--x-x--x-------x--x-x--|

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 17, 21 and 8 more.

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- Y, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 1-65 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 22-109 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.