Volt Thrower · Conan

97 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

130 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

97

LENGTH

2:59

DIFFICULTY

56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-39, snare through bars 40-52, hi-hat through bars 53-72 and snare through bars 73-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 22 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 28 more.

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 23 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.