Entombment Of A Machine · Job For A Cowboy

150 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

131 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

150

LENGTH

4:34

DIFFICULTY

77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-43, ride through bars 44-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-71, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 16 and 18, and 6 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 19, 23, 35, 51, 53 and 22 more.

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 3-15 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 28-38 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
9. and 19 more sittings after that.