Fight With Seymour · The Black Mages

153 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:00 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

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

153

LENGTH

5:00

DIFFICULTY

63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-34 and kick and crashes through bars 35-36, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26, 37 and 39-45, and 8 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------o-------x-------o-------x-------o-------x---x---o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 27, 68, 70 and 13 more.

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 1-24 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Bars 75-90 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.