Thoroughly At Home · Not Animals As Leaders

129 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

129

LENGTH

3:44

DIFFICULTY

65/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-40, hi-hat through bars 41-46 and snare through bars 47-49, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-30, 45-46 and 109-110, and 1 more place -- 8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                           30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a
CC |x---x---x---x-x-x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-x-x---x-------|
RD |----------------------------|x---------------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x---|------------x-----------x--x|
T1 |----------------------------|--------------------------x-|
FT |x---------------------------|-------------------------x--|
BD |xxx-----------xxx-----------|xxx-----------xxx------xx---|

6 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 65 more.

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 47 minutes.
3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Bars 107-116 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.