Raisins (Torn) · pAID

100 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

142 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

100

LENGTH

2:59

DIFFICULTY

83/100

ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-27, hi-hat through bars 28-50, ride through bars 51-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-83, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 44 and 46-48, and 4 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4                5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
RD |----------------|x-x-x-x-x-x-----|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|----------------|
SD |---x-x-x-x-x-x-x|-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxx|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-xx|
HF |x---------------|----------------|

9 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 12, 13, 21, 26, 27 and 31 more.

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
4. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through Part H and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 16-47 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Bars 52-65 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.