Cockroach King · Haken

167 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 7:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

85 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

167

LENGTH

7:51

DIFFICULTY

68/100

snare through bars 2-5, silence through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, ride through bars 28-35 and toms through bars 36-37, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32 and 70-76 -- 5.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    70
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------g-------x-------g-------x-------g-------x-------g-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------------------------------------------------------x-------|

22 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 31, 36, 37 and 51 more.

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- Q, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
4. Bars 2-59 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 4-20 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Bars 26-32 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
8. Through Part R and Part T -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 16 more sittings after that.