Many Times · Dijon

68 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:06 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

68

LENGTH

2:06

DIFFICULTY

55/100

hi-hat through bars 3-30, snare through bars 31-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-68.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 41, and 4 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x---------------|

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- M, W -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
3. Through the Break and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
5. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part H and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through Part M and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. Through Part F and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.