Year of the Horse · Inside Joke

180 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO

240 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

180

LENGTH

2:56

DIFFICULTY

70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, ride through bars 41-75, toms through bars 76-77 and ride through bars 78-93, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 11, and 27 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x-x-x---x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 7, 8, 48, 60, 75, 76 and 21 more.

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- A, G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
3. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
4. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
7. Through Part L and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
8. Bars 57-79 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
9. and 6 more sittings after that.