243 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom 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 1-12, ride through bars 13-23, hi-hat through bars 24-34, ride through bars 35-40, hi-hat through bars 41-45 and ride through bars 46-47, and 14 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 114-128, 130-144 and 146-158, and 2 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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SD |x-----------|4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 57, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76 and 3 more.
It cuts the song into 60 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.
185 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
243 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, 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.
4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 57, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76 and 3 more.