Paradise and Plague · Counterparts

97 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

97

LENGTH

2:49

DIFFICULTY

57/100

snare through bars 3-15, toms through bars 16-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-35, snare through bars 36-44 and toms through bars 45-49, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-23, 25 and 58-62, and 1 more place -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|------------x---|
HH |------o---------|----------------|
SD |----xx------x---|----x-------x---|
T2 |----------------|x-------x-------|
FT |----------------|x--------x----xx|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|--x---x---x-----|

13 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 40 more.

It cuts the song into 42 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, AL -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 15-27 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 23-36 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through Part T and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Bars 45-58 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Bars 49-66 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.