Omen · The Prodigy

118 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

136 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

118

LENGTH

3:28

DIFFICULTY

47/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-32, snare through bars 33-37, hi-hat through bars 38-64 and silence through bars 65-72, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 10 more places -- 43.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---oo--o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
6. Bars 63-105 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.