172 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-31, snare through bars 32-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-73, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-58, 60-73 and 76-84, and 3 more places -- 52.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 128, 129, 170 and 171.
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.
175 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.
55 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.
172 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 128, 129, 170 and 171.