Ratamahatta · Sepultura

120 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

110 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

120

LENGTH

4:22

DIFFICULTY

54/100

snare through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-7, silence through bars 8-10, toms through bars 11-46, silence through bars 47-50 and toms through bars 51-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 20 and 22, and 28 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |------------x-----g--x-----x--x-----x--x--x-----|
T1 |------------g-----x--g-----x--g-----x--g--x-----|
T2 |-x-x-x------------------------------------------|
FT |x-x-x-------------------------------------------|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- I, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through Part S5 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 36-51 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Through Part M and the Break 5 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.