Symbiotic in Theory (Tab Book) · Necrophagist

141 bars at 224 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

224 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

141

LENGTH

2:52

DIFFICULTY

98/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-27, ride through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-49, ride through bars 50-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-72, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-9, 13-14 and 18-19, and 4 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8                                                9
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|------------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----------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--|

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 4, 22, 23, 26, 27 and 30 more.

It cuts the song into 56 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 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
4. Through Part R and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
9. and 12 more sittings after that.