Watcher Of The Skies · Genesis

121 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 116 BPM, 6:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO

116 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

121

LENGTH

6:16

DIFFICULTY

59/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, ride through bars 15-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-40 and ride through bars 41-55, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21-27 and 43-45, and 2 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |-xxx-x-x-x-x-xx-xxx-xxx-|
SD |xxxx-x-x-x-x-xx--xx--xx-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---x---x---|

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 18 more.

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
4. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
7. Bars 19-64 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.