My Little Wish · Toe

161 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

171 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

161

LENGTH

3:46

DIFFICULTY

55/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-77, ride through bars 78-101, hi-hat through bars 102-117, toms through bars 118-126 and hi-hat through bars 127-141, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 14 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x-o-|--o---x-xxo-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|--x-----x-----x-|
HF |----------------|--------------x-|

9 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 36 more.

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, X -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Bars 9-56 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 39-101 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part X and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Through Part Z and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.