But The Regrets Are Killing Me · American Football

130 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 130 BPM, 3:29 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

130

LENGTH

3:29

DIFFICULTY

59/100

hi-hat through bars 3-33, snare through bars 34-39, ride through bars 40-88, toms through bars 89-91, hi-hat through bars 92-120 and ride through bars 121-122, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 9 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 8-34 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Bars 32-67 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 40-89 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Through Part H and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.