Lawyers, Guns And Money · Warren Zevon

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 2:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

97 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

63

LENGTH

2:36

DIFFICULTY

69/100

hi-hat through bars 3-15, ride through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-26, ride through bars 27-30, snare through bars 31-36 and ride through bars 37-61, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-17, 27-28 and 37-38, and 3 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16                                                               17
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
HH |------------------------------------------------------------x---|----------------------------x---------------------------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------x-------------------------------|x-----------------------x-------x-------------------------------|
HF |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 19 and 15 more.

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 9-34 -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
6. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.