Stitches · Nervepitch

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

81 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

76

LENGTH

3:45

DIFFICULTY

69/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-29, snare through bars 30-44, hi-hat through bars 45-55 and snare through bars 56-76.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-15, 28-30 and 32-34, and 3 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|----x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |--------------o-|----------------|
SD |----x----x--x-x-|---------x--x---|
T2 |----------------|xxx-------------|
FT |----------------|xxx-------------|
BD |x-xx---xx--x-x--|xxx-x--xx--x---x|
HF |----------------|x---------------|

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 26, 38, 42 and 5 more.

It cuts the song into 25 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 (a two-bar phrase), C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Bars 10-35 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.