Feds Watchin' · Sunami

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

89 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

75

LENGTH

3:21

DIFFICULTY

63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-11, silence through bars 12-14, toms through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26 and snare through bars 27-34, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 44-59 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44                               45
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-------------------x---|----x---x-----------------------|

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 18, 26, 34, 42, 43 and 1 more.

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- L, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 3-19 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Bars 56-69 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.