Metalism · Apace

123 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

123

LENGTH

3:17

DIFFICULTY

43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, toms through bars 18-25, silence through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43, snare through bars 44-51 and silence through bars 52-55, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 28-34, and 2 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x-------------|
BD |x-------x---x---|

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 43, 106, 107, 108 and 109.

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A, G -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Through Part D and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Bars 46-89 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 88-111 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 113-120 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.