Rejoice in Moribund · Mortal Decay

176 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

240 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

176

LENGTH

2:54

DIFFICULTY

78/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-69, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 14 and 18, and 10 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 30, 36, 52 and 22 more.

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 19-82 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 32-166 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 12 more sittings after that.