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81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

100 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

81

LENGTH

3:14

DIFFICULTY

79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, snare through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36 and toms through bars 37-39, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3 and 5-12 -- 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.

    5                                6
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
HH |------o---o-o-----o---o-o---o-o-|o-----o---o-o-----o---o---o---o-|
BD |x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------|

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 16, 20, 22 and 22 more.

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
6. Bars 13-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 19-29 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Bars 17-33 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.