Je Suis · AqME

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO

92 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

97

LENGTH

4:13

DIFFICULTY

49/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-46, snare through bars 47-52, silence through bars 53-55, snare through bars 56-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-97.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 35-46 and 61-71 -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------o------------------------o----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
T1 |------------------------x-----------------------|
T2 |---------------------------x--------------------|
FT |------------------------------x--x--------------|
BD |x-----x-----------------------------------------|

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 34, 50, 60 and 72.

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
4. Bars 19-47 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part F and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 56-76 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.