podil · idioma

94 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

94

LENGTH

2:30

DIFFICULTY

53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 4 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33               34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|--x-x-x---x-x---|

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 32, 38, 39 and 14 more.

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 7-20 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.