184 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-49 and snare through bars 50-67, and 12 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 34-40 and 68-73, and 3 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 20, 21, 41 and 24 more.
It cuts the song into 51 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.
200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
184 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 9, 17, 20, 21, 41 and 24 more.