The Story of Peio Mari · Alternative Competition 7

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO

100 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

96

LENGTH

3:50

DIFFICULTY

45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-69, hi-hat through bars 70-71 and ride through bars 72-96.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-20, 31-38 and 55-62, and 2 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-|xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-|
HH |----x-------x---|o---x-o-----o---|
FT |x-x-x-x---------|----------------|

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 69, 70, 71 and 96.

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 19-42 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
4. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Bars 53-66 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.