In A State Of Disgrace · Arclite

122 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 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

122

LENGTH

4:02

DIFFICULTY

63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-29, ride through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-57 and ride through bars 58-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 9 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 49, 71, 96, 97, 98, 99 and 2 more.

It cuts the song into 44 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, K (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 33-83 -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
6. Bars 38-69 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through Part M and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part P and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.