Four to Six · Math The Band

124 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO

210 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

124

LENGTH

2:22

DIFFICULTY

53/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-26, snare through bars 27-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-34, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-15, and 29 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    99
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 24, 27, 28 and 9 more.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Bars 9-114 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 51-68 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.