classic j dies and goes to hell part 1 · Glass Beach

143 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 6:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

82 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

143

LENGTH

6:59

DIFFICULTY

60/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-38 and snare through bars 39-40, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-94 and 105-110 -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    85
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 56, 66, 68 and 4 more.

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- P, U -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part H and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
6. Through Part F and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 63-95 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 85-101 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.