Set Fire To The Hive · Karnivool

160 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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

160

LENGTH

4:24

DIFFICULTY

63/100

toms through bars 3-10, silence through bars 11-17, toms through bars 18-26, hi-hat through bars 27-35, toms through bars 36-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-59, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-10, 19-26 and 153-160 -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |-gg-g-g-x-g-g-gx|-gx-g-gg----xgg-|
T1 |-------------x--|----------------|
T2 |-----------x----|-----x--x-------|
FT |---x-x-x--------|---------xx-----|
BD |x--------x----x-|x--x-------x-x--|

11 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 35, 37, 39, 41, 43, 47 and 34 more.

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- B, Y -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
5. Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
6. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
7. Through Part I and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Through Part I and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 9 more sittings after that.