Cynic -The Space for This · cynjc

152 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

152

LENGTH

5:04

DIFFICULTY

67/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-38, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15, 17-18 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 7.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17                                               18
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--------x--x--------------x--x--x--x--|------x--x--------------x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|

22 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 44 more.

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, AT -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
6. Bars 17-25 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 21-32 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
9. and 14 more sittings after that.