Nice To Know You · Incubus

165 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

154 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

165

LENGTH

4:41

DIFFICULTY

59/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, ride through bars 45-60, hi-hat through bars 61-84 and ride through bars 85-100, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-22, 24-25 and 27-28, and 9 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21                       22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----------x---|--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-x-------|x-----x-------x-|

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 52, 60, 92, 100, 112, 116 and 3 more.

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- J, Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 8-36 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
4. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 59-115 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Through Part J and Part AC -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.