Shores In Flames · Bathory

234 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:48 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

234

LENGTH

7:48

DIFFICULTY

53/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-30, toms through bars 31-32, ride through bars 33-34 and toms through bars 35-36, and 35 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-16, 19-20 and 23-24, and 22 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15                       16
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------x-----------|x-----x-----------------|
SD |x-----------x-----------|x-----x-----x-xx--x-xx--|
T1 |---x--x--x-----x--x--x--|---x-----x--------------|
T2 |---x--x--x-----x--x--x--|---x-----x--------------|
BD |---x--x--x-----x--x--x--|---x-----x--x-----x-----|

5 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 13, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 23 more.

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- F, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Bars 11-61 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 61-231 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.