His Twenty-Fourth Spring · Drudkh

304 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 9:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

135 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

304

LENGTH

9:00

DIFFICULTY

76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49, silence through bars 50-80, hi-hat through bars 81-96 and snare through bars 97-113, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 33-48 and 257-272, and 2 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 24, 27, 28 and 20 more.

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 17-49 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through Part H and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 81-100 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.