Talk · Beabadoobee

73 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

115 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

73

LENGTH

2:32

DIFFICULTY

62/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-24, ride through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-46, ride through bars 47-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-71, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-20, 22-23 and 37-38, and 6 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |---------x------|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 14, 24, 25, 26, 36 and 8 more.

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
6. Bars 31-37 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 33-59 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.