Snow-Sleep · Kardashev

108 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 5:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

110 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

108

LENGTH

5:32

DIFFICULTY

75/100

silence through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-21, toms through bars 22-36, silence through bars 37-46, hi-hat through bars 47-62 and ride through bars 63-75, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-19 -- 15.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1...............2...............3...............4...............5...............6...............
RD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------g---------------g-----------------------x-------g---------------g---------------g-------|
BD |x---------------------------------------x-------------------------------------------------------|

4 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 18 more.

It cuts the song into 17 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, AE -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
4. Bars 35-54 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part S and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.