Subdermal Defecation · Cerebral Incubation

69 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 1:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

123 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

69

LENGTH

1:59

DIFFICULTY

74/100

toms through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and ride through bars 34-41, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 36, and 5 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-----x-----|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxx|

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 24 more.

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- S (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
4. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
5. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
6. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 1-26 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.