Take Lots With Alcohol · Alkaline Trio

97 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

125 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

97

LENGTH

3:04

DIFFICULTY

67/100

toms through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-43, snare through bars 44-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-97.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 7 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6                                7
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
HH |--------o---------------o-------|--------o-----------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-----------xxxxx-x-x-x-|
BD |x---x-x---------x---x-x---------|x---x-x---------x-x-------------|
HF |------------x---------------x---|------------x-------------------|

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 20, 21 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 18-46 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.