The Pendulum · Igor Paluszek

394 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 187 BPM, 7:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

187 BPM

TIME

3/4

BARS

394

LENGTH

7:12

DIFFICULTY

55/100

toms through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-80, toms through bars 81-83, hi-hat through bars 84-136, toms through bars 137-141 and hi-hat through bars 142-191, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-27, 30-37 and 40-47, and 8 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|--------x-x-x-x-|
HH |x-x-o-x-xxx-o-x-|x-x-o-x---------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----------|
T2 |----------------|--------x-x-----|
FT |----------------|------------X-x-|
BD |x-x-----xxx-----|x---------------|

19 fills to learn, played 102 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 17, 48 and 96 more.

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- L, Q -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Bars 1-12 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Bars 7-38 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 11 more sittings after that.