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162 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

194 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

162

LENGTH

3:20

DIFFICULTY

56/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, snare through bars 42-58, hi-hat through bars 59-72 and toms through bars 73-74, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 23 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----x-x-|

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 16, 20, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 30 more.

It cuts the song into 54 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
3. Bars 10-48 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
6. Through Part M -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 42-63 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
8. Bars 64-155 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.