Methuselah Star · Lucretia

88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

88

LENGTH

4:22

DIFFICULTY

84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-34, toms through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40 and toms through bars 41-47, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28 -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---x---x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 18, 19 and 17 more.

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. Bars 1-29 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Bars 29-48 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.