Covered In Chrome ver. 2 · Violent Soho

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

78 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

66

LENGTH

3:23

DIFFICULTY

58/100

silence through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-36, ride through bars 37-39, hi-hat through bars 40-54, ride through bars 55-58 and toms through bars 59-61, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 31-33 and 49-51 -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--xx-xx--xx-|

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 38, 52, 56, 58, 62 and 3 more.

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part F and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 25-36 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 34-40 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Bars 46-59 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.