Do The Evolution · Pearl Jam

135 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

135

LENGTH

3:51

DIFFICULTY

56/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-81, ride through bars 82-89, hi-hat through bars 90-127 and snare through bars 128-135.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 18 and 20-22, and 30 more places -- 49.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 31, 69, 97, 101, 107, 115 and 2 more.

It cuts the song into 23 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Bars 86-98 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
6. Through Part J and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.