To your brethren in the dark · Satyricon

162 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO

115 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

162

LENGTH

5:31

DIFFICULTY

56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, snare through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-41, snare through bars 42-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48 and snare through bars 49-52, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 20 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 14, 22, 30, 34, 38 and 12 more.

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Bars 22-38 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
5. Through Part G and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
6. Through Part K and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part O and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Through Part Q and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.