Too Many Puppies · Primus

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO

81 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

79

LENGTH

3:53

DIFFICULTY

60/100

ride through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-22, ride through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-28, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-16, 21-22 and 25-28, and 5 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----X-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x-x-x---x-|

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 20, 24, 32, 38, 40, 46 and 8 more.

It cuts the song into 27 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part C and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
6. Bars 45-66 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.