IT Is The End · Ice Nine Kills, Less Than Jake, Fenix TX, JR Wasilewski, Buddy Schaub, Will Salazar

173 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

173

LENGTH

4:29

DIFFICULTY

55/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-17, silence through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38, snare through bars 39-45 and toms through bars 46-54, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-34, 36-38 and 64-66, and 5 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 35, 39, 40, 44, 46, 49 and 33 more.

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, D -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
3. Bars 5-35 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 49-101 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through Part U and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AC -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.