Gunfight with Slenderman · I Kidnapped The Princess

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 2:55 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

85 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

62

LENGTH

2:55

DIFFICULTY

68/100

snare through bars 1-10, silence through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-25, toms through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-62.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 5-6 and 9-10, and 1 more place -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 3, 26, 27, 29 and 33.

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 1-20 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 13-30 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 28-35 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 30-41 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.