The Discipline · Earth Crisis

121 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

110 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

121

LENGTH

4:11

DIFFICULTY

61/100

toms through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-46, snare through bars 47-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-71, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-21, 27-28 and 30, and 11 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 26, 50, 54 and 19 more.

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- K, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Through Part E and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 23-89 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Bars 58-107 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.