Death Portrait · Lorna Shore

152 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

125 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

152

LENGTH

4:52

DIFFICULTY

93/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-9, silence through bars 10-11, ride through bars 12-13, silence through bars 14-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-20, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 17-19 and 23, and 6 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

17 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 34, 36, 37 and 35 more.

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 12-51 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
5. Bars 21-35 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 16-133 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
7. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 11 more sittings after that.