Turns To Ashes · 36 Crazyfists

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

92 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

67

LENGTH

2:53

DIFFICULTY

81/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-23, hi-hat through bars 24-37, snare through bars 38-43, hi-hat through bars 44-47 and snare through bars 48-57, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 44-46 and 60-62, and 1 more place -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----------------x---------------|
HH |o---o---o---o-------o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-x-----xx--x---xx|

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 23, 41, 43, 49, 51, 53 and 3 more.

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through the Break and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Bars 12-24 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
6. Through Part E and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Bars 14-36 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
8. Through Part G and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 2 more sittings after that.