Fragments Of Time · Daft Punk

150 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO

131 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

150

LENGTH

4:35

DIFFICULTY

55/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 36 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 1 and 17.

It cuts the song into 24 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 31-58 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
6. Through Part G and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.