When Crows Tick On Windows · Carach Angren

202 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:59 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

150 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

202

LENGTH

5:59

DIFFICULTY

85/100

silence through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-20, toms through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-32 and toms through bars 33-34, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 81-91 and 101-108 -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    81                                               82
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |--------x---x---x---x-----------x---x---x---x---|--------x---x---x---x-----------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---x---x---x-----------x---x---x---x---|--------x---x---x---x---------------------------|
T2 |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
FT |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---------x---x---x---x-x---------x---x---x---x-|x---------x---x---x---x-x-------x-x-x-x-x-------|

13 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 11, 13, 22, 28, 34, 35 and 26 more.

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- AX -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
4. Through Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
5. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
6. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
7. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
8. Through Part G and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
9. and 19 more sittings after that.