Collapse · After The Burial

150 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

154 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

150

LENGTH

3:54

DIFFICULTY

64/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-20, toms through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, snare through bars 45-72 and toms through bars 73-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-59 and 109-123 -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x---x-----x-----|

7 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 16, 21, 22, 23, 28, 44 and 38 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 -- R, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 22-36 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Through Part E and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
6. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
7. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Bars 41-76 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.