117 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.
49 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 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-37, toms through bars 38-49, hi-hat through bars 50-76, toms through bars 77-88 and snare through bars 89-92, and 2 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-26, 31-37 and 50-65, and 3 more places -- 60.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 17 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.
160 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.
49 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
117 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.