Face The Truth · John Norum

191 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

180 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

191

LENGTH

4:15

DIFFICULTY

55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-88, snare through bars 89-90, hi-hat through bars 91-98, snare through bars 99-100, hi-hat through bars 101-116 and toms through bars 117-118, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 30 more places -- 56.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 97, 98, 115, 116, 117, 118 and 6 more.

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- A, B -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 63-136 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
5. Bars 92-156 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
7. Bars 94-125 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.