Theme For Capricornir · Antares

166 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

166

LENGTH

6:10

DIFFICULTY

59/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-23, silence through bars 24-51, hi-hat through bars 52-67, ride through bars 68-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-85, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-18, 20-22 and 89-92, and 1 more place -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------x-----------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--x--x-----x--x-----x--x--------x--x-----|

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 9, 80, 81, 82, 86 and 4 more.

It cuts the song into 42 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, L -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
3. Through the Break and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 15-71 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
7. Bars 74-83 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 76-89 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.