REAL INTRO 10/11/25 · MORTUA

67 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

160 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

67

LENGTH

1:41

DIFFICULTY

84/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, silence through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-33, silence through bars 34-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-45, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 14-16, and 2 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2                                3
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o-----------o-------|o---o---o-------o---o---o---o---|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 29, 41, 45 and 62.

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 16-67 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.