Tonight, Tonight · Smashing Pumpkins

154 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

148 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

154

LENGTH

4:09

DIFFICULTY

61/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-51, snare through bars 52-60 and ride through bars 61-72, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-16, 24 and 73-95 -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----------------|x-----x------xxx|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 51, 60 and 11 more.

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Bars 14-24 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Through Part E and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Bars 73-121 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.