Detonator · Ash

116 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

116

LENGTH

3:34

DIFFICULTY

60/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, snare through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-59, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-39 and 41-44, and 4 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 52, 68 and 95.

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
3. Bars 13-36 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 33-63 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 4 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part G and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
7. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.