161 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.
hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, snare through bars 26-43, hi-hat through bars 44-69 and kick and crashes through bars 70-77, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 13 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
11 12
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--g-g--x--g|----x--g-g----x-|
BD |x---------x-----|x---------x-----|7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 42 and 12 more.
It cuts the song into 32 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.
63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
161 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 42 and 12 more.