211 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 5:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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.
silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-63, silence through bars 64-65, hi-hat through bars 66-110, silence through bars 111-113 and kick and crashes through bars 114-119, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66, 68 and 70, and 51 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
68
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 33, 49, 81, 97, 121, 129 and 15 more.
It cuts the song into 25 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.
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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
211 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 33, 49, 81, 97, 121, 129 and 15 more.