Half Life · 10 Years

208 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 155 BPM, 4:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

155 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

208

LENGTH

4:02

DIFFICULTY

54/100

snare through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30, snare through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-38, snare through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-78, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 23 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 24, 28, 36, 72, 76 and 12 more.

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through Part P and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through Part Q and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.