Room For One More · Anthrax

171 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

171

LENGTH

4:53

DIFFICULTY

63/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-40, toms through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-53, toms through bars 54-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-73, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 25-32 and 62-64, and 2 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 12, 43, 44, 76, 77, 144 and 1 more.

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 3-45 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
5. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
6. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 11-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through Part B and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.