Breadcrumb Trail · Slint

92 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 5:22 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

100 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

92

LENGTH

5:22

DIFFICULTY

55/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-45, hi-hat through bars 46-65 and silence through bars 66-92.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 6 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
RD |----x---x-------x---x-------x---x---------------|
HH |----------------------------------------o-------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x------xx---|
BD |x-------x-----------x---x-------x---------------|

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 22, 24, 26 and 13 more.

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Bars 11-26 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
8. Bars 52-64 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.