Celestial Way · Mystic Whore

226 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

226

LENGTH

7:02

DIFFICULTY

68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-9, toms through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-54, ride through bars 55-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-70, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-33, 75-89 and 131-145 -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------X---X---X-|
BD |x---xx--xx--xx--|

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15 and 21 more.

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- I, Y -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 10-36 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
5. Through Part O -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
7. Through Part O and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
8. Through Part V -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.