Son Of A Bitch · Accept

126 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:49 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

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

126

LENGTH

3:49

DIFFICULTY

64/100

toms through bars 2-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-20, toms through bars 21-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-29, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54-56, 58-60 and 70-72, and 8 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    54
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 18, 22, 27, 28, 35 and 9 more.

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- U, A (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
3. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
6. Through Part G and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 30-54 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.