159 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, 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.
snare through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-17, silence through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-85 and silence through bars 86-88, and 9 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-44, 47 and 51-52, and 4 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
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BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 28, 40, 56, 79, 108 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 46 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 thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
159 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 4, 28, 40, 56, 79, 108 and 2 more.