Into The Grave · Grave

184 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

184

LENGTH

5:15

DIFFICULTY

68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-35, silence through bars 36-38 and kick and crashes through bars 39-42, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-57 and 59-65, and 3 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

21 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 22, 34, 40 and 30 more.

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
6. Bars 9-23 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Bars 19-59 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 10 more sittings after that.