Lady Cab Driver · prince

243 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 7:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

123 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

243

LENGTH

7:53

DIFFICULTY

48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-90, kick and crashes through bars 91-95 and hi-hat through bars 96-243.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18 and 20, and 57 more places -- 27.2% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 241, 242 and 243.

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
3. Bars 1-90 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 27-142 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 52-70 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 69-102 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through Part O and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.