Somnambulistic Description of the Theory of Maxima and Minima · Wertay

256 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 8:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

131 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

256

LENGTH

8:05

DIFFICULTY

52/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, snare through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-28, and 44 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9 and 15, and 25 more places -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x-x-x-x-|
HH |--o---o---------|
SD |----x-----x---x-|
BD |x-----xxx---x---|

12 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 12, 16, 18 and 35 more.

It cuts the song into 66 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
7. Bars 48-56 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 10 more sittings after that.