109 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-42, ride through bars 43-46 and snare through bars 47-54, and 4 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-22, 28 and 32-42, and 5 more places -- 52.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 54 and 82.
It cuts the song into 23 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.
160 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.
48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
109 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 54 and 82.