Waltz Of Time · Isra

119 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 5:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

27 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

119

LENGTH

5:54

DIFFICULTY

27/100

ride through bar 1, silence through bars 2-29, ride through bars 30-35, snare through bars 36-43 and ride through bars 44-119.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 80-82, 84-86 and 88-90, and 5 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    80                       81
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |------------------------|x-----------------------|
RD |--x---x---x---x---x-x-x-|--x---x---x---x-x---x-x-|
HH |o-----------o-----------|------------------------|
SD |----x---x-------x---x---|----x---x---------------|
FT |x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------|
HF |------------------------|------------------x-----|

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 7 more.

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- AC, F, R -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
2. Bars 1-45 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
3. Bars 10-35 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Bars 71-94 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Bars 91-121 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.