Half-Tongue · All Them Witches

108 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 4:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

145 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

108

LENGTH

4:26

DIFFICULTY

64/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-36, ride through bars 37-47, hi-hat through bars 48-59, ride through bars 60-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-72, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 15, and 7 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |---------------------x--------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x--------x--------------x-----------------------|

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 38, 39 and 47.

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
6. Bars 23-35 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 34-41 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
8. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.