Penitence · Morterra

191 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

191

LENGTH

5:17

DIFFICULTY

88/100

snare through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-41, hi-hat through bars 42-59, ride through bars 60-119, hi-hat through bars 120-132 and kick and crashes through bars 133-134, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-41, 66-68 and 70-72, and 3 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
RD |------x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
SD |------------------x--------------------x--------|
BD |x--------x--------x--------x--------x--------x--|
HF |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 83, 84, 85, 95, 96, 97 and 3 more.

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 15-33 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
7. Through Part F and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
9. and 13 more sittings after that.