Dres · Big Cyc

121 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

121

LENGTH

3:43

DIFFICULTY

49/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-38, snare through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-81, snare through bars 82-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-105, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 33 and 36-38, and 6 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x-o-x-o-x-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

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 -- D, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Bars 45-54 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 62-121 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.