Mirror Image/Broken Glass · solastyear

120 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

182 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

120

LENGTH

2:38

DIFFICULTY

64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, toms through bars 25-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-36 and silence through bars 37-42, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 7 more places -- 20.9% 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-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 32, 50 and 10 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 -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, AE -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Bars 25-49 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Through Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.