Bury Me In Hell · Nine Circles

226 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

170 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

226

LENGTH

5:19

DIFFICULTY

61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-41, toms through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-57 and ride through bars 58-148, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 76-83, 100-115 and 132-147 -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    76               77
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |x-----x-----x---|--x-x-----x-x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
T2 |----------------|----------x-----|
FT |----------x-----|------x---------|
BD |x-x-x-------xxx-|x-x---------x-x-|

8 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 29 and 23 more.

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- Z, AB -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through Part J and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 12 more sittings after that.