Bring Me To Life · Evanescance

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

95 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

95

LENGTH

3:59

DIFFICULTY

58/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-23, ride through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43, ride through bars 44-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-55, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-38, 50 and 64-70 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31               32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |xx-x--xx-xx---xx|-xx--x-xx-x-----|

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 43, 47, 49, 51, 54, 55 and 10 more.

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Bars 22-39 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part D and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 50-72 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.