The Paradox · Eternal Spirit

136 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

136

LENGTH

3:38

DIFFICULTY

46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-10, snare through bars 11-23, toms through bars 24-25 and snare through bars 26-31, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 29, and 13 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------g---g-----|
BD |x-----------x-x-|

6 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 22 more.

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- M, O (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 35-51 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
7. Bars 59-136 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.