Eternal Nothingness (Album Version) · Blade and Bath

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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

80 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

116

LENGTH

5:48

DIFFICULTY

45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-42, hi-hat through bars 43-75, silence through bars 76-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-116.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 31-32 and 35-36, and 4 more places -- 51.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 4, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34 and 6 more.

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
7. Bars 65-103 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.