Take You At Your Word · Cody Carnes

145 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 7:34 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO

115 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

145

LENGTH

7:34

DIFFICULTY

33/100

toms through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-25, toms through bars 26-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 54-68 -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54                       55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|------------------x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
FT |----------x-------------|----x-----x---x-x-----x-|
BD |x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------|

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 71, 75, 77, 79, 80 and 9 more.

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- N, L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Bars 16-25 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
4. Bars 25-56 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
5. Through Part N and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
6. Through Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
7. Through Part Q and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.