Whispers of the Evergloom · Dead World Reclamation

313 bars at 224 BPM -- fast, and 5:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

224 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

313

LENGTH

5:35

DIFFICULTY

58/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, snare through bars 2-16, toms through bars 17-19, snare through bars 20-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36 and ride through bars 37-66, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 15 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39               40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x-x-|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-----|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---|--------x---x-x-|

39 fills to learn, played 75 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 8, 11, 12 and 69 more.

It cuts the song into 96 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
6. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
7. Bars 27-178 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Through Part N and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 16 more sittings after that.