Halik · Kamikazee

61 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 1:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

126 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

61

LENGTH

1:51

DIFFICULTY

86/100

hi-hat through bars 3-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, snare through bars 26-34, hi-hat through bars 35-58 and kick and crashes through bars 59-61.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 17-19 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3                                4
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---o-o-o---o-o-----|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|----x-------x-----x-x---x-x-xxxx|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-x---x-|x-----x-x-----x-x-----xx--------|

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 7, 11, 15, 25, 29 and 10 more.

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 3-16 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Bars 16-37 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.