O Father O Satan O Sun! · Behemoth

133 bars, 8:53, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

60 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

133

LENGTH

8:53

DIFFICULTY

58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, toms through bars 37-38 and ride through bars 39-44, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 93-99, 101-107 and 109-115, and 2 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    95
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------------------------------------------------------x-------|

5 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 19 more.

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- T, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Bars 5-21 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Bars 77-92 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.