Dreams in Inertia · Code Orange

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO

85 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

105

LENGTH

4:57

DIFFICULTY

39/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-35, toms through bars 36-51 and snare through bars 52-67, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 17-23 and 34-35, and 1 more place -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---------|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-x-x-|

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 59 and 84.

It cuts the song into 30 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Through Part G and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
5. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 65-85 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.