Song 10, 100 BPM, Drop C · Done Songs

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

90 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

89

LENGTH

3:57

DIFFICULTY

86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48, snare through bars 49-50, toms through bars 51-54 and snare through bars 55-56, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19 and 41-43 -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-x-----x-x-----|

19 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 5, 7, 10, 12, 20, 24 and 25 more.

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
5. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 1-21 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. Bars 17-32 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 10 more sittings after that.