Spandau Ballet · True

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO

98 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

128

LENGTH

5:12

DIFFICULTY

39/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, silence through bars 15-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-128.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 27-30 and 42, and 11 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 31, 61, 89, 93, 96, 117 and 1 more.

It cuts the song into 26 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. Bars 12-25 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 64-94 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.