Event Horizon (Reach for the Sun and Burn! Burn! Burn!) · Heaven Pierce Her

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

90 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

100

LENGTH

4:23

DIFFICULTY

100/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-24, snare through bars 25-26, toms through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-38 and ride through bars 39-42, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 40-41, 47-49 and 90-91, and 1 more place -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40                                                               41
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |X-------X-------X-------X-------X-----------------------X-------|X-------X-------X-------X-------X-------X-----------------------|
RD |--------x-------x----x-----x------------x-------x----x-----x----|--------x-------x----x-----x------------------------------------|
SD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x---------------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------x---------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------x-----------|
FT |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------x---x---|
BD |-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x|-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|

7 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 2, 3, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 34 more.

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- X -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
7. Through Part I and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.