Conflict · Slaughter To Prevail

64 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

64

LENGTH

2:06

DIFFICULTY

73/100

toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-9, ride through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-23, hi-hat through bars 24-27 and ride through bars 28-29, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4 and 32-34 -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                                3
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x-----------x---------------|x---x-----------x-------x---x---|
SD |--------xxxxxxxx----xxxx----xxxx|--------xxxx--xx----xxxx--------|
T2 |------------------------xxxx----|------------xx------------------|
BD |x---x-----------x---------------|x---x-----------x-------x---x---|

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 14, 23, 27 and 3 more.

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
4. Bars 2-11 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 16-24 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Bars 28-44 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.