Ways To The Grave · Bloodbath

147 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

110 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

147

LENGTH

5:21

DIFFICULTY

64/100

toms through bars 1-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-56, snare through bars 57-62, hi-hat through bars 63-78 and toms through bars 79-80, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 41-47, and 4 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|

17 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 31, 32, 40 and 20 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Bars 47-58 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part M and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
8. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
9. and 7 more sittings after that.