Hay loft · Mother Mother

146 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

192 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

146

LENGTH

3:03

DIFFICULTY

50/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-81, silence through bars 82-84, snare through bars 85-88, hi-hat through bars 89-96 and silence through bars 97-103, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 57-63, and 5 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 16, 24, 56, 72, 80, 88 and 4 more.

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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Bars 13-29 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 64-89 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 88-132 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.