Joker And The Thief · Wolfmother

175 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

156 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

175

LENGTH

4:29

DIFFICULTY

68/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and ride through bars 45-54, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-35, 45-47 and 49-54, and 4 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33                       34
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x---x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----x-----|

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 44, 58, 60, 64, 68, 72 and 11 more.

It cuts the song into 45 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
4. Bars 10-34 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
6. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 41-69 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Bars 57-134 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.