Master Of Insanity (ver1) · Thousand Leaves

217 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 8:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

100 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

217

LENGTH

8:39

DIFFICULTY

53/100

silence through bars 1-3, ride through bars 4-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, ride through bars 15-26 and toms through bars 27-29, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 33-44 and 55-66, and 3 more places -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

18 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 3, 9, 17, 24, 25, 27 and 24 more.

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- H, X -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 10-34 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 46-58 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
8. Bars 67-80 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.