IDK · Bury The Witness

139 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

200 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

139

LENGTH

2:47

DIFFICULTY

65/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, silence through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, toms through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-40, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 60 and 64, and 11 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 14, 18, 25, 26, 30 and 19 more.

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y (a two-bar phrase), L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 1-31 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
5. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 13-35 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.