Out of the Black (Rocksmith) · Royal Blood

160 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

159 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

160

LENGTH

4:01

DIFFICULTY

53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-18, toms through bars 19-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-46, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 39-41, and 10 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 30 and 22 more.

It cuts the song into 49 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, E, I -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Bars 6-31 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through Part I and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part M and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 63-103 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.