No Devil Lived On · Heaven Pierce Her

69 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 185 BPM, 2:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

185 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

69

LENGTH

2:15

DIFFICULTY

53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49 and silence through bars 50-69.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16 -- 16.3% 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+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |X-----------------------|------------------------|
RD |------------x-----------|x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------|x-----------------------|
T1 |------x-x---------------|------x-x---------------|
T2 |---------x--------------|---------x--------------|
FT |----------x-x-x-x---x---|----------x-x-x-x-x-x---|
BD |x-----------x---x-------|------------x---x-x-----|

7 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 18 and 16 more.

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 9-36 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
5. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.