I Am What Remains · Seventh Hour

93 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

127 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

93

LENGTH

2:56

DIFFICULTY

55/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-28, hi-hat through bars 29-35, snare through bars 36-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48 and snare through bars 49-93.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 53-59, and 4 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 36, 60, 68 and 5 more.

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 30-55 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.