Bundle up your dreams · Kessoku Band

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

77 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

92

LENGTH

4:44

DIFFICULTY

64/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-3, ride through bars 4-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-29 and ride through bars 30-31, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 36-38, and 4 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----------------------|

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 13, 15, 17 and 21 more.

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- O -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Bars 4-14 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part H and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and Part AF -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.