148 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
61 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 1-31, toms through bars 32-33, hi-hat through bars 34-42, snare through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-77 and snare through bars 78-79, and 11 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 8, and 15 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|22 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 3, 4, 11, 12, 15, 16 and 47 more.
It cuts the song into 50 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.
170 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.
61 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
148 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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.
22 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 3, 4, 11, 12, 15, 16 and 47 more.