138 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare 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.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-69, ride through bars 70-133 and hi-hat through bars 134-138.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 70-133 -- 46.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
70
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 15 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.
185 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
138 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.