Odd Time Thingy In 9/8 / 19/16 · Jack Winegarden

116 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

116

LENGTH

3:12

DIFFICULTY

59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-69, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 94-95, 97-98 and 100-101, and 4 more places -- 13.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    94             95
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e
CC |--x--x--x-----|x-----x-----x-|
SD |--x-----------|------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 17 more.

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- BD -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ, AE -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
6. Through Part E and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
7. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through Part I and Part AE -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.