The Rain Washes You Away · Nameless 272

102 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

142 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

102

LENGTH

2:49

DIFFICULTY

81/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-38 and toms through bars 39-40, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-20, 26 and 30, and 1 more place -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13                                               14
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------x-----------|------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------------------|o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------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--|

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 24, 39, 40, 43 and 6 more.

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
4. Bars 1-16 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
6. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Bars 24-53 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
8. Bars 26-41 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 9 more sittings after that.