"Distract and Divide" · Converge

67 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 1:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

185 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

67

LENGTH

1:18

DIFFICULTY

87/100

snare through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-26, snare through bars 27-33, toms through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-41 and toms through bars 42-43, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 19-21, and 2 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                                3
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-----------x---x-----------x---|x-------------------------------|
RD |--------------------------------|----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-x-x-x-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---|

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 18, 22 and 15 more.

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
4. Bars 9-40 -- 4 exercises, about 12 minutes.
5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 15-39 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.