Curse These Metal Hands · Lovejoy

90 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

124 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

90

LENGTH

2:53

DIFFICULTY

62/100

ride through bars 2-9, toms through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-43, hi-hat through bars 44-49, toms through bars 50-65 and ride through bars 66-88, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-8, 26-31 and 66-72, and 4 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--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-----|

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 25, 41, 49, 65, 73 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 29 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. Through the Intro and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
3. Bars 10-34 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 34-50 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 45-78 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.