Slice Paper Wrists · Poison The Well

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

109 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

127

LENGTH

4:31

DIFFICULTY

77/100

hi-hat through bars 3-6, snare through bars 7-69, silence through bars 70-84, snare through bars 85-86, hi-hat through bars 87-108 and toms through bars 109-110, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 95-101 and 103-108 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    95                               96
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-----x---------|----x-----------x-----x---------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|------------g-x---------g---x---|

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 33, 39, 44 and 8 more.

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- AI, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Bars 2-18 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
6. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
7. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Bars 33-49 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
9. and 9 more sittings after that.