Mostly Hair and Bones Now · Gaza

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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

90 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

92

LENGTH

3:44

DIFFICULTY

64/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-53, snare through bars 54-55, hi-hat through bars 56-59 and toms through bars 60-66, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-21, 26 and 73-74, and 2 more places -- 9.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|----x-----------|
HH |o-o-o-------o---|o-------o-------|
SD |x-x-x---------x-|----x--x-x-x----|
T1 |----------------|------------xx--|
T2 |----------------|---------------x|
BD |------x-x---x---|--x--x--x-------|

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 21, 22, 23 and 27 more.

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- E, Q -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Bars 17-75 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 34-51 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Through Part Q and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.