The Plage Of AM · Interflow

135 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

135

LENGTH

3:34

DIFFICULTY

88/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-13, hi-hat through bars 14-34 and ride through bars 35-40, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-32, 43-48 and 79-85, and 1 more place -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26                                                               27
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x-----------------------x---------------x-------|x---------------x-----------------------------------------------|
SD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x----------------------------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------X--X----X--X----X--X----X--X----|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 50 and 21 more.

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
6. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through Part E and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 15 more sittings after that.