Lazy Eye · Silversun Pickups

185 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

185

LENGTH

5:42

DIFFICULTY

63/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-116, ride through bars 117-118, hi-hat through bars 119-126, ride through bars 127-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-136, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 20 and 22, and 24 more places -- 41.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 88, 128, 138, 148, 152, 184 and 1 more.

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- C, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
2. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 21-91 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 83-104 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part B and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
7. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.