One With The Maimed · Morofop

259 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 6:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

157 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

259

LENGTH

6:32

DIFFICULTY

69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-41, hi-hat through bars 42-56, toms through bars 57-59, hi-hat through bars 60-74 and toms through bars 75-76, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46-48 and 50-52, and 13 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------X-------|
BD |Xxx-x-x-x-xxxxx-|

30 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 2, 3, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 75 more.

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- P, V -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- BE -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part B and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
9. and 16 more sittings after that.