Prisoners · Alternative Competition 7

80 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

80

LENGTH

2:41

DIFFICULTY

41/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-26, hi-hat through bars 27-40, snare through bars 41-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-59, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-11 and 27-37 -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8                9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-------x---|----x-----------|
RD |--xx------------|--xx------------|
HH |xx----x-------x-|xx--------------|
SD |x-----------x---|x---------x-----|
T2 |---------xx-----|------x-----x---|
FT |-------xx-------|----xx--------xx|
BD |------------x--x|--------xx------|

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 11 more.

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 11-19 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Through Part J and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 24-50 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 48-80 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.