Street Spirit (Fade Out) · Harakiri for the Sky, Groza

144 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

144

LENGTH

4:26

DIFFICULTY

49/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-79 and toms through bars 80-82, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 69-75, 77-79 and 129-143 -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 36, 52, 68, 76, 96, 112 and 6 more.

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- M, G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
3. Bars 9-37 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
5. Bars 38-69 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 64-86 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part K and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.