WIP SONG IDEA · Envine

154 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 206 BPM, 4:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO

206 BPM

TIME

6/4

BARS

154

LENGTH

4:16

DIFFICULTY

52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-12, ride through bars 13-28, hi-hat through bars 29-34, ride through bars 35-44 and snare through bars 45-52, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-18 and 21-26, and 9 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13                       14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|--------------------x---|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x-----------|
BD |x-------------------x---|x---------x---------x---|

22 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 48 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 -- K -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- R, V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
3. Bars 3-13 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
5. Through Part R and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
6. Bars 43-53 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part R -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
8. Bars 77-97 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
9. and 5 more sittings after that.