Eternal Damnation · Laid 2 Rest

69 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

69

LENGTH

1:58

DIFFICULTY

45/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-36 and toms through bars 37-38, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 29-31 and 33-35, and 4 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 20, 24, 28 and 4 more.

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E, F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 17-43 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part E and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.