153 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
58 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 1-10, ride through bars 11-13, snare through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-49, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21, 67 and 129-144 -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
129 130
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----xx----x---|--x---x-----x---|14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 25, 29 and 36 more.
It cuts the song into 58 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.
186 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.
58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
153 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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.
14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 25, 29 and 36 more.