Father Of Mine · Everclear

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

98 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

92

LENGTH

3:45

DIFFICULTY

55/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, snare through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21-23, and 17 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x-xx------x---x-|

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 36, 40 and 9 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Bars 15-62 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 8-69 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Bars 53-87 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.