Gadhimai · Underside

257 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 5:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

175 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

257

LENGTH

5:55

DIFFICULTY

65/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-14, snare through bars 15-21, hi-hat through bars 22-28, snare through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-50, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 94-100, 102-104 and 106-107, and 8 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    94                               95
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|------------x---x-----------x---|
BD |x-----------x-------x---x-------|----x---x-----------x---x-------|

23 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 41, 49, 60, 61, 69, 73 and 32 more.

It cuts the song into 90 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 -- Z, B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- BU -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Bars 32-37 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part F and Part S8 -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
6. Bars 40-70 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
7. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Bars 60-70 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 17 more sittings after that.