Dear Insanity · Asking Alexandria

149 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

200 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

149

LENGTH

2:58

DIFFICULTY

56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-11, snare through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, snare through bars 36-53, toms through bars 54-71 and snare through bars 72-103, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 14 and 16, and 2 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 13, 17, 27, 29, 31 and 17 more.

It cuts the song into 54 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 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Bars 6-28 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Through Part J and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 24-39 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
7. Through Part N and Part R -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Bars 54-89 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.