Sterile Nails And Thunderbowels · Silencer

112 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 147 BPM, 6:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

147 BPM

TIME

8/4

BARS

112

LENGTH

6:04

DIFFICULTY

54/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, silence through bars 22-28, hi-hat through bars 29-41 and snare through bars 42-46, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20 and 38-44 -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........7...........8...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 31 and 45.

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 14-21 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
5. Through Part I -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 29-46 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.