Hated By The Gods · Ancient North

156 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

125 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

156

LENGTH

5:00

DIFFICULTY

88/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-35, hi-hat through bars 36-77, silence through bars 78-84, ride through bars 85-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-156.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 49-64 and 93-156 -- 62.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

1 fill to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 16, 48, 82 and 84.

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
2. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 17-77 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Through Part F and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.