The Whistles In The Cold · Worm Shepherd

177 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

140 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

177

LENGTH

4:32

DIFFICULTY

80/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-22, toms through bars 23-28, silence through bars 29-38, snare through bars 39-40 and toms through bars 41-42, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-84, 94-97 and 162-164 -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    82
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
RD |-----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|
SD |---x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x--|
BD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 36, 41, 42, 47, 52, 81 and 17 more.

It cuts the song into 74 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 -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
4. Through Part B and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 7-22 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Through Part F and Part S6 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
7. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
8. Through Part I and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 16 more sittings after that.