Soundtrack Of My Life · Blaze

163 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 95 BPM, 5:09 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO

95 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

163

LENGTH

5:09

DIFFICULTY

58/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-49, hi-hat through bars 50-53, snare through bars 54-57, hi-hat through bars 58-88 and snare through bars 89-91, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-64, 66-72 and 74-80, and 3 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o--o--o--o--|
SD |---x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----|

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 139 and 163.

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. Bars 89-135 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.