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36 bars of 7/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 2:05 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

7/4

BARS

36

LENGTH

2:05

DIFFICULTY

78/100

toms through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-16, toms through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-30 and toms through bars 31-36.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 17 and 31-33 -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........5...........6...........7...........
SD |------------------------x-----------------------------------------------x-----------|
T1 |x---------------x-------------------x---------------x-----------------------x-------|
T2 |----x-------x---------------------------x-------x-------------------------------x---|
FT |--------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---|

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 15, 16, 18, 19 and 20.

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 8-25 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.