On My Own · Three Days Grace

90 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

118 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

90

LENGTH

3:03

DIFFICULTY

45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-57, snare through bars 58-61, hi-hat through bars 62-72 and snare through bars 73-83, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 30 and 46, and 12 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 16, 41, 57, 61, 67 and 3 more.

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- L, C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part C and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part D and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Bars 31-49 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Bars 68-75 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.