Satan Prayer · Ghost

146 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

146

LENGTH

4:27

DIFFICULTY

68/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-81, ride through bars 82-91 and hi-hat through bars 92-97, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-81 and 121-143 -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    76
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |--oo--oo--oo--oo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 10, 12, 29, 40, 41 and 15 more.

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part H and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
7. Bars 27-52 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through the Verse and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 8 more sittings after that.