polymorph vers 2- riffs · Necromancer

135 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

180 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

135

LENGTH

3:00

DIFFICULTY

70/100

ride through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-63, silence through bars 64-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-83, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 48-54, and 1 more place -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

7 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 16, 24, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 34 more.

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 16-31 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
7. Bars 48-69 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
8. Through Part M -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.