Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet · Fall Out Boy

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

112

LENGTH

3:44

DIFFICULTY

52/100

hi-hat through bars 3-29, silence through bars 30-43, snare through bars 44-50, hi-hat through bars 51-64, snare through bars 65-73 and silence through bars 74-86, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 45-47, and 5 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-----r-x-r-|--r-x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 20, 44, 48, 52, 82, 84 and 9 more.

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Bars 27-38 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S7 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through Part S7 and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.