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253 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 9:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

103 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

253

LENGTH

9:02

DIFFICULTY

88/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-19, toms through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25 and toms through bars 26-29, and 34 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-19 and 31-32 -- 1.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18                                         19
    1...........2...........3...........4..... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------x-----------x-----------|------------X-----------X-----------X-----------|
HH |x-----o-----o--x--------o--x--------o-----|o--x-ox--o--------------------------------------|
SD |------------x--------x-----------x--------|------x-----X-----x-x---X-----x-x---------------|
T1 |------------------------------------------|------------------------------------X-x---------|
T2 |------------------------------------------|---------x------------------------------x-x-----|
FT |------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------x-x-|
BD |---x-----x-----x--x-----x--x--x--------x--|x--x--x--x--X--x------x-X--x----x-x-X-----------|

20 fills to learn, played 196 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 190 more.

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- R -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AV (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- BP (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through Part R -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 32-55 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Through Part S3 and Part AN -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Bars 65-81 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and the Break 3 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
9. and 15 more sittings after that.