245 bars at 204 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
hi-hat through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-10, snare through bars 11-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-40 and toms through bars 41-42, and 16 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 9 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
11 12
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--x-x-----------|8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 9, 10, 34, 38, 86 and 16 more.
It cuts the song into 53 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.
204 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.
56 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
245 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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.
8 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 2, 9, 10, 34, 38, 86 and 16 more.