La cruz de su sangre · ESBC

49 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 90 BPM, 4:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

90 BPM

TIME

8/4

BARS

49

LENGTH

4:32

DIFFICULTY

68/100

ride through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, ride through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-34, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16 -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                                                                                                                                10
    1...............2...............3...............4...............5...............6...............7...............8............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............5...............6...............7...............8...............
RD |x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---|x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x----------ggg------------------x-------------------------------x----------gxg--|----------------x-------------------------------x----------ggg------------------x-------------------------------x---x-----------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------x-------x-----------------------x-------------------------------x-------x---------------x---x---|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Through Part S1 and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
6. Through Part F and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 20-38 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.