231 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 6:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.
hi-hat through bars 1-64, ride through bars 65-84, silence through bars 85-88, hi-hat through bars 89-92, snare through bars 93-108 and ride through bars 109-120, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-24 and 31, and 6 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
1 2
1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|------------x-----------x-------|
BD |x---------------------------x---|x-------------------x-----------|2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 32, 64 and 108.
It cuts the song into 52 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.
146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
231 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 8, 32, 64 and 108.