Endless Remorse · Outta Pocket

94 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

176 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

94

LENGTH

2:08

DIFFICULTY

63/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, ride through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-78, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 33-35 and 37-39, and 2 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----xx|
BD |xxxxx-------x-x-|x---x-----x-x---|

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 5, 8, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 20 more.

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Through Part G and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.