Jesus Wept · Demon Hunter

137 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

200 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

137

LENGTH

2:44

DIFFICULTY

74/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-64, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-31 and 45-47, and 6 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20 and 14 more.

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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 93-109 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through Part X and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.