Crave · The Butterfly Effect

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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

107 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

97

LENGTH

3:38

DIFFICULTY

58/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-37, ride through bars 38-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-45, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-17, 20-21 and 24, and 13 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|--x----xx-x---x-|

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 9, 23, 25, 29, 43, 51 and 5 more.

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase), M -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Bars 50-58 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part M and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.