Possum Kingdom · Toadies

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 101 BPM, 4:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

101 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

104

LENGTH

4:59

DIFFICULTY

46/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-51, toms through bars 52-53, hi-hat through bars 54-85 and silence through bars 86-104.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-12, 14-15 and 17-18, and 12 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------x---x---|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x---------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----x---x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x---x---|

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 9, 21, 30, 33, 48, 51 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 22 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part I and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.