El Mañana · Gorillaz

124 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

135 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

124

LENGTH

3:40

DIFFICULTY

46/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, silence through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-47, silence through bars 48-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-124.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 26 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x-----x---x-|
SD |----x-----x---x-|
BD |x-x---x-x---x---|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- D, O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. Through Part C and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Through Part D and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Through Part D and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 46-84 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.