Scrap Book · NEK!

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

108 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

101

LENGTH

3:44

DIFFICULTY

55/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29 and snare through bars 30-38, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9 and 11, and 17 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x--x-x-xx---x-|

11 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 14, 16, 20 and 33 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Bars 13-21 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part K and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through Part N and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 31-53 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 53-87 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.