The moon landing was real, I was the cameraman · Status: Disarray

116 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

155 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

116

LENGTH

3:00

DIFFICULTY

68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-20, toms through bars 21-31, snare through bars 32-33, toms through bars 34-35 and snare through bars 36-78, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 10 more places -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------g-x-------|
BD |x--x--x---x---xx|

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 23, 25, 27, 29, 30, 31 and 20 more.

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- G -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
7. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
8. Through Part H and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.