KVASK. · Konstantin Rozhkov

94 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

46 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

94

LENGTH

2:30

DIFFICULTY

46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-23, toms through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-41, ride through bars 42-49 and toms through bars 50-59, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 12 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x---x---|
HH |o-o-o-o---------|
SD |----x-----------|
BD |x-------x---x---|

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 5, 23, 31, 49, 57, 58 and 3 more.

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. Bars 1-27 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Through Part N and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.