Orpheus · Ash

130 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

130

LENGTH

3:28

DIFFICULTY

64/100

toms through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-30, ride through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-58 and ride through bars 59-74, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-37, 59-65 and 67-73, and 2 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31               32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x---x-|

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 38 and 18 more.

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- K, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
4. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 37-82 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
8. Through Part A and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.