Red Wedding · The Bled

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

93 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

68

LENGTH

2:53

DIFFICULTY

63/100

snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-18, toms through bars 19-20, snare through bars 21-23 and ride through bars 24-30, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 40-42, and 1 more place -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |------------------------x-------|
HH |----------------------------o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|
HF |------------------------------x-|

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 14, 18 and 17 more.

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E, AC -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 7-24 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 20-40 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.