Freakish · Saves The Day

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

80 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

74

LENGTH

3:40

DIFFICULTY

58/100

ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-41 and snare through bars 42-50, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 32 and 34-36, and 5 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x--x-xx-x--x-x|

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 31, 33, 49 and 8 more.

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 12-33 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Bars 38-58 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.