Yekteniya 5 · Batushka

175 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

175

LENGTH

5:50

DIFFICULTY

96/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-36, ride through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-51, ride through bars 52-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-84, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-43, 61-67 and 125-131 -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
RD |--------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---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 44, 48, 52 and 18 more.

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
4. Bars 13-150 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
5. Bars 13-149 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 17-31 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
7. Bars 33-45 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
8. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
9. and 14 more sittings after that.