Drenched In Gasoline · Putrid Pile

86 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

86

LENGTH

3:34

DIFFICULTY

76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, ride through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-24 and ride through bars 25-30, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-56 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 18, 19, 25 and 1 more.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
4. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.