Cumbersome (with drums) · Seven Mary Three

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

81 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

77

LENGTH

3:47

DIFFICULTY

57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-50, silence through bars 51-60, hi-hat through bars 61-71 and toms through bars 72-77.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-13, 17 and 21-29, and 1 more place -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|x---x---------x-----------------|

3 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 45, 46, 47, 61, 68, 69 and 8 more.

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Through Part F and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 41-62 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
7. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.