Mineral · Atheist

191 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

145 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

191

LENGTH

5:16

DIFFICULTY

87/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-22, ride through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-88, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 13 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3                        4
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|--------------------x---|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-----|
SD |------------x---------x-|------------x-------x---|
T1 |------x-----------------|------------------------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x---x-x---|x---x-x---x---x---x-----|

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 14, 22 and 22 more.

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Bars 39-76 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
8. Bars 93-106 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.