Mother May I (Better Version) · Coheed And Cambria

166 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

166

LENGTH

4:26

DIFFICULTY

61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-39, hi-hat through bars 40-64, ride through bars 65-74, hi-hat through bars 75-82 and snare through bars 83-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-81, 83-89 and 133-139, and 2 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    83
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 72, 73, 74, 82, 104, 105 and 11 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 -- Q, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 22-44 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Bars 45-58 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
7. Bars 61-75 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.