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90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

88 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

90

LENGTH

3:53

DIFFICULTY

75/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-66, silence through bars 67-77, ride through bars 78-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-90.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-7, 22-23 and 89-90 -- 7.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6                                                                7
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4.......
CC |----------------------------------------------------x---x-------|--------------------------------x-----------------------|
HH |x-------x-------x---o---x-------x-------x-------x---------------|------------------------o---x-----------x-------x-------|
SD |------------x-----------------------------------x---------------|-----x----------------------------------x-x---------x---|
T1 |------------------------------------x---------------------------|x--x----------------------------------------------------|
T2 |--------------------------------------------x-------------------|-------------------xx-----------------------------------|
FT |x---------------------------------------x-----------------------|---------------------x----------------------------------|
BD |----x---------------x---x---x-----------------------x---x-x-x---|--------x--x-x--x-------x---x---x-----------x-----------|

6 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 46 more.

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
4. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part AM -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part AM -- 2 exercises, about 34 minutes.
7. Bars 50-60 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Bars 60-84 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.