177 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
53 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 2-42, toms through bars 43-55, hi-hat through bars 56-92, toms through bars 93-105 and hi-hat through bars 106-177.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-14, 19-22 and 27-30, and 12 more places -- 46.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
12
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
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 18 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.
190 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.
53 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, 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.