Stop Calling · Willy Rodriguez

113 bars at 179 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

179 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

113

LENGTH

2:31

DIFFICULTY

59/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, snare through bars 34-49, hi-hat through bars 50-81 and snare through bars 82-113.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-24, 26-28 and 30-31, and 4 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 32, 33, 44, 57, 80 and 4 more.

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Bars 35-62 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Bars 69-93 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.