Scavenger Of Human Sorrow · Death

268 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 7:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

149 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

268

LENGTH

7:35

DIFFICULTY

92/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, ride through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-36, ride through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-65 and ride through bars 66-68, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 10 and 13-14, and 11 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                                                      8
    1...........2...........3...........4...........5..... 1...........2...........3...........4...........5.....
CC |x-----------------------------x-----x-----------------|------------------------------------x-----------------|
RD |------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------x--x-x---------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----------------o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----------------o-----o-----|
SD |------------------x-----------------x-----------------|------------------x-----------------x-----------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 11, 12, 17, 18 and 36 more.

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 4-31 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part T -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through Part T and Part AE -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part T and Part AE -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
8. Through Part AE -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
9. and 19 more sittings after that.