Cops and Robbers · Underscores

177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

177

LENGTH

4:54

DIFFICULTY

49/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-88, silence through bars 89-100, hi-hat through bars 101-112, kick and crashes through bars 113-116 and hi-hat through bars 117-135, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 11 more places -- 33.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 12, 28, 32 and 177.

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 8-29 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.