Ether · What Lies Below

105 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

145 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

105

LENGTH

2:54

DIFFICULTY

49/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-18, silence through bars 19-24, snare through bars 25-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48 and snare through bars 49-64, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 46, and 5 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|x-----x--x--x---|

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 44 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
3. Through the Break 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
4. Bars 25-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
6. Bars 43-80 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. Through Part S8 and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Bars 82-98 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.