The Hammer of Wrath · Lovebites

226 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

155 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

226

LENGTH

5:55

DIFFICULTY

65/100

snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-11, hi-hat through bars 12-43, snare through bars 44-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-51, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 24-29 and 32-33, and 21 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|

29 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 18, 19, 30 and 58 more.

It cuts the song into 76 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, AG -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. Through Part G -- 7 exercises, about 20 minutes.
4. Bars 1-142 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Bars 43-93 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
9. and 13 more sittings after that.