Mayfly · Belle and Sebastian

153 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO

170 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

153

LENGTH

3:36

DIFFICULTY

39/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-56, hi-hat through bars 57-77, snare through bars 78-112, hi-hat through bars 113-126 and snare through bars 127-147, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-14, 29-35 and 43-56, and 3 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 25 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. Bars 1-32 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus 3 and Part A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
4. Bars 72-113 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 113-144 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.