The Gridiron · Brodequin

106 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

106

LENGTH

2:48

DIFFICULTY

77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-17, ride through bars 18-73, hi-hat through bars 74-81, snare through bars 82-89 and hi-hat through bars 90-98, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-33, 58-60 and 62-64, and 2 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 43, 45, 55, 73, 85, 99 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
7. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 54-77 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 3 more sittings after that.