Falling Upon Deaf Ears · As I Lay Dying

97 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO

170 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

97

LENGTH

2:17

DIFFICULTY

59/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-37, hi-hat through bars 38-39, snare through bars 40-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-62, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-29, 39 and 47 -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14               15
    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-----xxxxxxxx|

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 55, 59, 63, 70, 71, 75 and 3 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 -- F, H -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
3. Through the Break 3 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 10-48 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 57-72 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 61-83 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.