The Worm · Audioslave

133 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

142 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

133

LENGTH

3:45

DIFFICULTY

61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-28, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 13 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------x-----------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------x-----x-----------|

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 25, 53, 59, 96, 120, 128 and 5 more.

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 70-98 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through Part Q and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 103-121 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.