164 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
54 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 bar 1, snare through bars 2-32, ride through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50, kick and crashes through bars 51-52 and snare through bars 53-68, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 55 and 57, and 34 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
53
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxx--------|8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 35 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.
162 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.
54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
164 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 18 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 and 12 more.