Make It Out Alive · One Ok Rock

118 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

137 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

118

LENGTH

3:27

DIFFICULTY

66/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-22, toms through bars 23-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-56, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-17, 41-47 and 49-55 -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11                       12
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |----x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x---x-|
T1 |------------------------|----------x-------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 18, 38, 48, 76, 98 and 2 more.

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Bars 5-19 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Through Part A and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 22-39 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 38-71 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
7. Bars 74-87 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 84-111 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.