Dasein · First Fragment

240 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

170 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

240

LENGTH

5:37

DIFFICULTY

93/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-18, hi-hat through bars 19-21, ride through bars 22-28, snare through bars 29-30 and ride through bars 31-36, and 36 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-30, 37-38 and 81-82, and 6 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                               30
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---------------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x-------x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------|

21 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 11, 12, 19, 20, 25, 26 and 69 more.

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
8. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 19 more sittings after that.