Secretion of the Shrubbery · Ahumado Granujo

79 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

135 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

79

LENGTH

2:20

DIFFICULTY

80/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24 and ride through bars 25-33, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-19 and 26-31 -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|----x-----------|
RD |x-x-X-X-X-XX-X--|X-------x-x-x-g-|
SD |----x--x-x--X--x|----X-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 20, 24, 32 and 16 more.

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through the Break 2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Bars 13-50 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.