The Light At The End Of The Tunnel Is A Train · Unwound

288 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 11:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

100 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

288

LENGTH

11:31

DIFFICULTY

48/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, ride through bars 27-31, hi-hat through bars 32-86 and toms through bars 87-93, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 169-217, 225-238 and 253-259, and 1 more place -- 33.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    169
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 52, 53, 60, 61, 68 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- V, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. Through Part D and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through Part D and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Bars 84-131 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through Part O and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
7. Through Part P and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. Bars 142-156 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.