Fire · Sleeping With Sirens

93 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 158 BPM, 3:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

158 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

93

LENGTH

3:32

DIFFICULTY

59/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, snare through bars 31-36, toms through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-50, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------------------x-----------------------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----x-----------x-----------------x-----x-----------x-----|

3 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 25, 26, 27, 28, 37, 38 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Bars 13-24 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 37-56 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
7. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.