Take You On A Cruise · Interpol

140 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

140

LENGTH

4:40

DIFFICULTY

59/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-29, silence through bars 30-41, ride through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-45 and ride through bars 46-47, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20, 28 and 64-78 -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64               65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x---o-x-|
SD |----x-----x-----|----x-----xx--x-|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x---x---|

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 139.

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
4. Through Part B and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
6. Bars 52-80 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
7. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
8. Through Part G and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.