FiRE (My Sweet Misery) · Xdinary Heroes

136 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

47 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

136

LENGTH

3:12

DIFFICULTY

47/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-28, snare through bars 29-40, hi-hat through bars 41-57 and silence through bars 58-60, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 20-21 and 26, and 14 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|

13 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 23, 24, 28 and 34 more.

It cuts the song into 41 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 42-101 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Bars 95-117 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.