Prelude To Repulsion · Suffocation

254 bars at 211 BPM -- fast, and 4:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

211 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

254

LENGTH

4:45

DIFFICULTY

76/100

snare through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-13, hi-hat through bars 14-15, ride through bars 16-22, hi-hat through bars 23-43 and kick and crashes through bars 44-45, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-15, 23-37 and 46, and 11 more places -- 16.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

30 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 10, 19, 38 and 80 more.

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 13-40 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Through Part E and Part H -- 10 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Through Part H and Part AE -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 9 more sittings after that.