RAT POISON · Without A Face

84 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 2:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

164 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

84

LENGTH

2:03

DIFFICULTY

88/100

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-26 and snare through bars 27-33, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49, 51 and 53, and 5 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69                               70
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------|x-------------------------------|
BD |x---x-------------------x---x---|----x---------------------------|

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 12, 15, 16 and 12 more.

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- V -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
4. Through the Break -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
5. Through the Break and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
7. Bars 1-17 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part G and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.