Love Me Dead · Ludo

131 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

122 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

131

LENGTH

4:18

DIFFICULTY

63/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-33, hi-hat through bars 34-54, ride through bars 55-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-82, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-25, 27 and 29-30, and 6 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19                       20
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----------------|------------------------|
RD |------------x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x--------x--|
BD |x--x--x--------x--x-----|---x--x--------x--x-----|

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 18, 26, 33, 34, 42, 50 and 16 more.

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- I, M -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Bars 10-40 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through Part E and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
8. Bars 44-83 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.