Pisces · Jinjer

217 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 4:49 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

217

LENGTH

4:49

DIFFICULTY

71/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-39, hi-hat through bars 40-49, snare through bars 50-51 and ride through bars 52-54, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 5 more places -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26                       27
    1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......
RD |X---x---X---x---X---x---|X---x---X---x---X---x---|
SD |----------------x-------|----------------x-------|
BD |x-------x---------------|x-----------x-------x---|
HF |------------------------|x-----------------------|

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 24, 40, 49, 101, 117, 145 and 8 more.

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- H, AJ -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part L and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.