For the Love of Pain · Testament

150 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

125 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

150

LENGTH

4:48

DIFFICULTY

91/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-31, snare through bars 32-35, hi-hat through bars 36-39 and snare through bars 40-43, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-26 and 28-30, and 4 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|

24 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 17 and 30 more.

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 7-32 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
8. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
9. and 17 more sittings after that.