Last Resort (drum cover edit) · Papa Roach

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

91 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

75

LENGTH

3:16

DIFFICULTY

61/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30, ride through bars 31-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-41, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-4 and 43-53 -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------------x-|
SD |----f-------f---|----f---------x-|
T1 |x-------x-------|x-------x---x---|
T2 |x-------x-------|x-------x---x---|
BD |-x-------x------|-x-------x---x--|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 20, 22, 30, 34, 54 and 9 more.

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 3-17 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
5. Bars 13-24 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Bars 21-73 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 31-75 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
8. Through Part N and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.