Fear Campaign · Fear Factory

223 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 4:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

205 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

223

LENGTH

4:21

DIFFICULTY

77/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18 and snare through bars 19-20, and 34 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-27, 29-35 and 55-61, and 1 more place -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxx-xxx-----xxx-|xxx-----xxx-xxx-|

15 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 54 more.

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- I, U -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
3. Bars 4-17 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part C and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 9-21 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
7. Through Part C and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Bars 44-55 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 14 more sittings after that.