Ripped from the Cross · Grotesque

166 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

170 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

166

LENGTH

3:54

DIFFICULTY

69/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-60, kick and crashes through bars 61-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-119, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 29-31, and 9 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|x-----------x---|
BD |x-----xx------xx|--x---x---x-----|

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 16, 32, 36, 40, 41 and 14 more.

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 17-37 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Bars 43-80 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 77-95 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through Part K and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.