The Eggs of Melancholy · Mutiilation

191 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

170 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

191

LENGTH

4:41

DIFFICULTY

86/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-29, ride through bars 30-45, hi-hat through bars 46-54, snare through bars 55-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-67, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-43, 73-86 and 135-163, and 2 more places -- 44.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    30
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 18, 19, 26, 27, 44, 45 and 12 more.

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Bars 43-53 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
6. Through Part A and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.