Maze of Phobetor · Akhlys

197 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 7:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

110 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

197

LENGTH

7:30

DIFFICULTY

95/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-32, ride through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-45, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 15 and 65-71, and 5 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|

21 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 2, 4, 7, 8, 13, 14 and 39 more.

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 20 more sittings after that.