Me Against The World · Lizzy Borden

169 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

135 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

169

LENGTH

5:00

DIFFICULTY

49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-16, toms through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-47, ride through bars 48-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-83, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-45, 56-58 and 60-62, and 3 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x-----|

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 46, 47, 55, 84 and 8 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 -- F, J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 1-19 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through Part N and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
8. Through Part J and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.