Thresher · Hellions

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

51 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

93

LENGTH

3:06

DIFFICULTY

51/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, snare through bars 23-45, toms through bars 46-48 and snare through bars 49-66, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 23, and 8 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 14, 21, 22, 24, 26 and 17 more.

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- C, Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
3. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
4. Bars 13-23 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.