Dissipate Official · Polaris

198 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

180 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

198

LENGTH

4:24

DIFFICULTY

61/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-13, hi-hat through bars 14-35, snare through bars 36-43, toms through bars 44-45 and ride through bars 46-57, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-48, 50-52 and 54-56, and 3 more places -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46               47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x-|--x-x-----x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|

22 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 16, 22, 27 and 47 more.

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 9-44 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Bars 12-80 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through Part G and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Bars 35-49 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
9. and 13 more sittings after that.