Now the ships are burned · Yngwie Malmsteen

156 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

152 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

156

LENGTH

4:04

DIFFICULTY

60/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-49, snare through bars 50-55, hi-hat through bars 56-91, snare through bars 92-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-101, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-34, 114-118 and 120-127, and 1 more place -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    114
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 18, 43, 64, 66, 67 and 13 more.

It cuts the song into 63 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part A and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Bars 21-47 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Through Part L and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Through Part H and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
9. and 10 more sittings after that.