152 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.
49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
kick and crashes through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-72 and snare through bars 73-89, and 3 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-40 and 57-63, and 3 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
25 26
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |--------x-------|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|x-x-----x-x-----|1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.
It cuts the song into 19 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.
49 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
152 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.
1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 72.