Shake Your Heads · Accept

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

88 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

92

LENGTH

4:08

DIFFICULTY

64/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, ride through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-76, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-18, and 3 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------|

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 36, 48, 56 and 12 more.

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K (a two-bar phrase), Y -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.