169 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.
52 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 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-134, silence through bars 135-136, hi-hat through bars 137-155, snare through bars 156-162 and hi-hat through bars 163-169.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 29-41 and 43-49, and 10 more places -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 76 and 108.
It cuts the song into 21 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.
186 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.
52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
169 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.
3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 76 and 108.