The Fight Song · Marilyn Manson

95 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

95

LENGTH

2:55

DIFFICULTY

53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-22, snare through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38 and snare through bars 39-42, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 23-29 and 39-42, and 2 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 30, 38, 58 and 74.

It cuts the song into 22 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, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
4. Bars 23-50 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 47-78 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.