Eating Sandwiches · George Bryce

126 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

135 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

126

LENGTH

3:44

DIFFICULTY

86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-48, ride through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-60, snare through bars 61-65, toms through bars 66-76 and snare through bars 77-107, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 13 more places -- 43.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------x-----------|
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
T1 |------------------------------x-----------------|
T2 |---------------------------------x--------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 125.

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 45-52 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
7. Through Part G and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. Bars 65-80 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.