160 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 6:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
snare through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-20, hi-hat through bars 21-27, snare through bars 28-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-37, and 8 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 16 more places -- 16.4% 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-------|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 30 more.
It cuts the song into 40 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.
180 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.
48 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
160 bars, about 6:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 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.
12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 30 more.