140 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-38, toms through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-46, and 19 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 13 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 56, 68, 89, 96, 97, 138 and 2 more.
It cuts the song into 36 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.
172 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.
50 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.
140 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 30 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 8 times: bars 56, 68, 89, 96, 97, 138 and 2 more.