I Hate It Too · Hum

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

94 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

96

LENGTH

3:59

DIFFICULTY

54/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-40, snare through bars 41-45, hi-hat through bars 46-49 and snare through bars 50-55, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 12-14 and 17-19, and 4 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 6, 33, 34, 35, 37 and 17 more.

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. Bars 5-18 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Through Part D and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part E and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 53-76 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 74-90 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.