Grasping For Air · Unzipped in Reverse

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

95 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

72

LENGTH

2:58

DIFFICULTY

84/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-14, hi-hat through bars 15-28, ride through bars 29-36 and toms through bars 37-46, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 15-18 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 14, 19, 20, 37, 38 and 10 more.

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
4. Bars 8-15 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
8. Through Part I and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.