Little Things · Bush

110 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

110 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

110

LENGTH

4:00

DIFFICULTY

56/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-35, snare through bars 36-41, hi-hat through bars 42-59 and snare through bars 60-81, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 36-40 and 60-66, and 4 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x-x-x-x-|--x-x---x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|-x--x--x-x--x---|
BD |x--x----x-x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 17, 29, 35, 53, 59 and 9 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 7-37 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
4. Bars 53-80 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
6. Bars 85-94 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 4 minutes.