Inside Out · Eve 6

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

90 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

75

LENGTH

3:20

DIFFICULTY

70/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-21, ride through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-37, ride through bars 38-45 and toms through bars 46-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-50 and 52-55 -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46               47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-x-|
T1 |---x-x-----x-x--|---x-x-----x-x-x|
T2 |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
FT |xxx-x-xx-xx-x-xx|-xx-x-xx-xx-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-------x-x-----|
HF |g-------g-------|g-------g-------|

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 24 and 21 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 -- R -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 25-46 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Through Part I and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
8. Through Part R and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.