The Great Feast Underground · Wind Rose

222 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

160 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

222

LENGTH

5:33

DIFFICULTY

76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-56, snare through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-62 and ride through bars 63-66, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-12 and 33-39, and 9 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 21 more.

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, AB -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part C and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Bars 19-33 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 40-98 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Bars 45-67 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.