The Manifesto ft. Trueno & Proof · gorillaz

192 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 8:15 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO

93 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

192

LENGTH

8:15

DIFFICULTY

52/100

hi-hat through bars 2-75, silence through bars 76-85, hi-hat through bars 86-111, silence through bars 112-119, hi-hat through bars 120-139 and silence through bars 140-145, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 86-88, 109-111 and 134-138, and 2 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    86
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
6. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 74-93 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
8. Through Part G and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 4 more sittings after that.